The apprehension of Alias Gonzalo Martínez was possible in the urban area of the municipality of Popayán, Cauca, making effective the arrest warrant No.039, issued for him for the crime of aggravated homicide.
Troops of the Third Division of the National Army, in an operation coordinated with the National Police and Inter-Institutional with the CTI (Technical Investigations Corps) of the regional prosecutor's Office of Cauca, capture alias Gonzalo Martínez, alleged perpetrator of the murder of political leader Gustavo Adolfo Herrera Gutiérrez, perpetrated on October 20, 2020, in the Department of Cauca.
The operation was carried out within the framework of the Bicentenary plan Heroes Of Freedom, in which soldiers of the Infantry Battalion no.7 General José Hilario López and the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) of Cauca and military units of the twenty-ninth Brigade of the Cauca specific command (CECAU), find this individual.
Alias Gonzalo Martínez would have been in the guerrilla ranks from 2005 to 2012. In that year he decided to join the peace process. In 2016 he abandoned this Agreement and returned again to carry out operations outlaw, serving as head of hitmen of organized criminal groups that commit crimes in the municipalities of Popayán, El Tambo, Timbío and Totoró, in the Department of Cauca.
Through this capture, it is possible to severely weaken the networks of common crime, which through criminal operations attack against the social leaders and the community in the region.
Source: National Army News Agency
