After a little more than 36 hours, EL TIEMPO learned that The authorities managed to locate the criminals who threw a grenade at a commercial establishment on 134th Street with 19th street, north of Bogotá.
Alias ’Orejas’, ‘Beto’ and ‘Ender’responsible for the criminal act, have a criminal history of two years in Colombia, According to intelligence information, they carried out extortion in different locations in the city, specifically in Usaquén, Kennedy and Barrios Unidos.
The Metropolitan Police of Bogotá reported that the subject who threw the explosive device, apparently, He was accompanied by another person. Both fled the scene after throwing the grenade. The explosive device did not detonate at the location, which is a courier and international shipping location.
According to the work carried out by our officers, it was possible to establish that a motorcycle found during the raid had been used to launch the grenade and commit the extortions. This vehicle was immobilized and placed at the disposal of the competent authority.
Granada north of Bogotá.
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“All operational bubbles, such as the judicial and intelligence police, were immediately activated and we began to gather all this evidentiary material to locate these subjects,” said Lieutenant Colonel Sergio Andrés Bayona Salazar, operational commander of citizen security.
Lieutenant Bayona added that the incident is related to a case that authorities have been working on for several months.
The authorities’ findings
Press conference on the arrest of those involved in the grenade attack on 134th Street.
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In the middle of a press conference, the mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán; the Secretary of Security, César Restrepo and the commander of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, José Daniel Gualdrón, pThey resented the operational result regarding the capture of the three men who threw the grenade inside a commercial establishment on 136th Street.
Mayor Galán, the victim, had been the victim of threats and extortion since March and was being accompanied by the Gaula of the National Army and, Given the attempted attack, the Gaula of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police joined the investigation.
According to the president, the statement of a human source who provided evidence and information was key to being able to capture the three criminals. At the same time, the general Gualdrón explained that it was a call from a citizen that alerted them and helped identify the motorcycle the criminals were riding.
Thus, today around 12:00 noon the capture of the men was carried out inside a house located in Suba, in Bogotá. In the midst of the search procedure, explosive material, grenades, firearms, the clothing used at the time of committing the crime and cash were seized.
In that order of ideas, the authorities pointed out that this result is part of a series of effective operations that have occurred in recent months against the leaders of organizations such as the Tren de Aragua and Satan, in which The leaders of hitmen, administrative leaders of criminal profits and promoters of drug trafficking in the localities have fallen.
According to the authorities, during 2024 more than 6,300 arrests have been made, which means that, on average, there have been 90 criminals every day. For now, The authorities say that they will present the three Venezuelan men before a guarantee control judge to legalize the capture, so that the charges are brought against them. and that he be given security measures in a prison, if so determined by Law.
The Metropolitan Police of Bogotá invites the community in general to continue filing the corresponding complaints to stop this illegal economic activity and thus keeping these criminals safe from the authorities, who affect the security and tranquility of the inhabitants of the capital city.
Jonathan Toro Romero
Bogotá Editorial
