A continuation of the intensified hearing, where charges will be filed against three people, is planned for Tuesday, January 23. He was captured as an alleged member of the gang that stole 16 armored trucks from a contractor affiliated with the National Protection Unit (UNP).
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Although authorities have already located 11 of the 16 Toyotas, they are still investigating what was behind this attack, according to investigators. It was planned by staff who knew everything from how to disable GPS or satellite locators to where each car’s keys were and which personnel were guarding them.
EL TIEMPO confirmed that 11 of the 16 stolen vehicles were part of a lawsuit between UNP contractors: Alliance Security (responsible for JEP security plans) and Neostar Seguridad de Colombia.
Actually Neostar representatives They had requested the seizure of the armored vehicles, and the UNP had warned the Alliance that they would not take them as part of their protégé’s plan.
EL TIEMPO had access to the initial report of the robbery and He also spoke to the defense of two of the three detainees, who speculated what their clients would tell him about what happened. In fact, he did not rule out perfecting the principle of opportunity or a preliminary agreement to provide relevant information.
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“The suspects were captured in a parking lot with the corporate name ‘Santa Ana’ at Carrera 77Q and 46B in the south of Bogotá, in the Yakeline district.“, says the report. It also adds that police personnel at CAI Socorro received an alert from the park security guard about the entry of 6 vans.
“When police arrived at the car park, six people escaped and managed to intercept three of them: Germán Alexander Moreno Bolívar, Jairo Alfonso Rojas Ballén and Brayan Alfonso Rojas Muñoz,” the report reads.
last two father-son and EL TIEMPO found for the first time that Rojas Ballén was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for aggravated robbery.
The criminal, who is in dialogue with this newspaper, Edwin Segura Escobar, the lawyer of Rojas Ballén and his son, predicted that they would not plead guilty to robbery charges.
As he explains, Allegedly, people caught owning some trucks will be sentenced to between 7 and 14 years in prison just for taking delivery..
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“Mr. Rojas Ballén works as a mechanic in the south of the city. A customer who started bringing him several vehicles to gain his trust was the one who urged him to pick up two vehicles to get them repaired. Since he was working with his children in the workshop, he asked one of them to accompany him.“Segura Escobar explained.
He added that they would start evaluating the preliminary agreement. or an opportunity principle where they will provide the customer’s name and even phone contact.
guilty too He explained that his clients did not even know the other person who was captured, and that they only received 150 thousand pesos when they went to buy the trucks.
About It was stated that the previous period in which Rojas Ballén was convicted of aggravated robbery did not set a precedent because it was in 2012 and with different objects.
“I don’t remember well, but he broke into a house with a stolen safe with other people.“said the lawyer.
EL TIEMPO, the name of the Rojas workshop It is ‘Hermanos Rojas automotive technical service’ and is located in the south of Bogota.. The registration appears to have been canceled and was made in the name of a woman.
Lawyer Marlon Díaz, representing Alliance Security, confirmed to this newspaper its establishment after examining the inventories. It was stated that 11 of the 16 stolen trucks were among the vehicles seized in the case filed with Neoestar.
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In this regard, he said that they had already filed a legal challenge in this case to show that the accusation against them was – in their opinion – unsupported. But the judge in the case agreed to injunctions against the vehicles, and the UNP insists it will not accept them under JEP security programs.
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