The evidence presented by the Attorney General’s Office in an oral trial for the kidnapping of a citizen in the rural area of Yumbo (Valle del Cauca), which occurred on June 14, 2016, allowed the conviction of two uniformed members of the National Police and a private individual.
These are patrolmen Ferney Alonso Castro Caro and José Antonio Sandoval Daza who were sentenced to 42 years and 6 months in prison for the crimes of kidnapping for ransom; manufacture, trafficking and carrying of weapons and ammunition for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces or explosives; and qualified theft, all three aggravated behaviors.
For these events, Yecid Díaz, alias El Indio or Jota, was also sentenced to 41 years and 6 months for the crimes of kidnapping for ransom; and qualified and aggravated robbery.
The investigation led by a prosecutor from the Delegate against Organized Crime showed that the patrolmen actively participated in the planning and execution of the kidnapping.
The uniformed Castro Caro, accompanied by another police officer, intercepted the victim while he was traveling in a private vehicle to pick up his son from school. They took him down and informed him that they had an arrest warrant against him.
They then handed him over to another person who was an official of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), also linked to the process, who transported him in an official vehicle to a farm. On the way, the victim was beaten, they put a black hood on him and injected him with a substance that made him sleepy.
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Alias El Indio or Jota, received the kidnapped man and kept him in captivity for two months, changing his location three times to avoid his rescue.
For his part, patrolman Sandoval Daza profiled the victim, followed up, the day before he was in a planning meeting and had communication with the kidnapped man’s wife to demand five million dollars to set him free.
The Military Gaula on August 14, 2016 rescued the victim in a cambuche in a village of Dagua (Valle del Cauca).
The ruling imposed on the three defendants the inability to exercise public rights and functions for 20 years and the prohibition of possession or carrying of firearms.
Likewise, he ordered the immediate capture of those convicted so that they could serve their sentences in the detention center established by Inpec.