This individual would be responsible for homicides in the Northern subregion of Antioquia.
In a coordinated military operation conducted by the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) Valle de Aburrá, of the Fourth Brigade and the Antioquia Police, alias Richard, alleged ringleader of the residual organized armed group (GAO-r) Structure 36, was arrested by judicial order.
The individual must face charges of aggravated homicide, manufacture, trafficking and carrying of firearms or ammunition and qualified theft.
The military operation was carried out through search procedures in the municipality of Yarumal, northern Antioquia, where a pistol, cartridges, a magazine and a cell phone were found by troops.
Alias Richard would be linked to the murder of a councilman in the municipality of San Andrés de Cuerquia. He would in the same way be responsible for the installation of explosive devices that took the lives of two members of the Military Forces on the road that connects San Andrés de Cuerquia with Valle de Toledo. He is in the same way accused of collecting money coming from extortions made against hydropower generators, miners, ranchers and merchants of the North and Northeast subregions of Antioquia.
Alias Richard allegedly participated in the installation and detonation of an anti-personnel mine that seriously injured two minors in the municipality of San Andrés de Cuerquia..
Through this result, the GAO-r Structure 36, a criminal organization that has been generating intimidation and loss in properties of the inhabitants with its criminal operations, is severely hit. In addition, by means of this result, the expansion and creation of the front 5 of this criminal structure is stopped.
