Four people would be part of this criminal organization dedicated to making threats through pamphlets alluding to an armed group in order to force their victims to pay extortionate fees. The intimidating cases would have been registered in Neiva, Garzón and Campoalegre.
The complaints filed with the Gaula Police Group allowed the prosecution of four people involved in acts affecting the economic assets of merchants in the department of Huila.
Your criminal activity
According to the information provided, the individuals would be part of an organization called ‘Los Viajeros’, which served as a support network for the Iván Díaz Front of the Jorge Suarez Briceño Block of the Central General Staff of the FARC dissidents.
Their mode of operation consisted of identifying their possible victims by locating their establishments in order to carry out intimidating acts in order to force them to pay for the ‘vaccines’.
Modus operandi
“These people moved through different municipalities of Huila, in order to choose their victims, from whom, through intimidating messages and threatening pamphlets, they made economic demands on merchants from Neiva, Garzón and Campoalegre,” the Police said in a statement. Metropolitan of Neiva.
Likewise, they provided logistical material to the armed structure for the installation of improvised explosive devices.
Thus, after arduous investigative work, it was possible to identify the alleged perpetrators, so the Prosecutor’s Office requested their arrest warrants before a judge, which became effective in other regions of the country.
Those involved
The procedures were carried out in the departments of Meta, Risaralda, Norte de Santander and Atlántico, where police units arrived to deprive Cristian Camilo Villa Marín, alias ‘Orejas’, Gilbert Andrés Perea Rangel, alias ‘Flaco’, Sonia Sánchez Loaiza, alias ‘Sonia’ and Vitelina Bernarda García Viana, alias ‘La Cucha’.
They were insured
Those mentioned are now being prosecuted for the crimes of conspiracy and extortion. At the end of the hearings, the officer decided to shelter them with a security measure in a prison facility.
