Given the evidence presented during the hearings held by a specialized Gaula prosecutor, a Buenaventura municipal criminal judge ordered a measure with prison detention against five presumed members of the Los Shotas faction of the Local gang, dedicated to extortive kidnapping of people in this port on the Peaceful.
The investigative body charged Marlon Andrés Castillo Valenzuela, alias Yuki, Jeison Andrés Palma Valencia, alias Fifi, Brayan Stiven Segura Angulo, alias Nesti, Mario Muriel Arroyo, alias May, and Kevin Estiven Castro Estupiñan, alias Loky as alleged co-authors of the crimes of aggravated extortive kidnapping.
The events for which the five men are prosecuted occurred between February 24 and 25, 2023, in the El Cristal and San Luis neighborhoods of commune 7, when the victim was approached by several armed men, who were moving in a vehicle and a motorcycle, one of them gave him a cell phone so that he could talk to a brother who is in Chile and “balance some things.”
According to the complaint, Marlon Andrés Castillo, alias Yuki, threatened him with a firearm, forcing him to board the vehicle in which he was taken to a house in the San Luis neighborhood, where there were around 15 people, carrying weapons. white and long
In the corridor of the building, the victim was seated in a chair, a man who identified himself as El Viejo assured him that they were collecting a debt of $500,000,000 that one of his relatives owed them and if they did not pay they would kill him.
To pressure the payment, alias the old man would have ordered a chicken to be killed and covered the victim with its blood, they took a photo of him with a cell phone and sent it via WhatsApp. According to the complaint filed with the Prosecutor’s Office, the man was placed a hood that covered his face and he was subjected to a beating by several men.
On February 25, 2023, CTI servers together with Military Gaula units carried out a search and control operation in the San Luis sector, where the victim was kidnapped, in the care of an armed man. Taking advantage of the carelessness of his captor, the citizen left the place and asked for help from the Gaula units, rescuing him with CTI servers and National Police agents.
In the investigations, the Prosecutor’s Office collected statements from witnesses to the kidnapping, analysis in databases, photographic recognition of the members of Los Shotas who committed crimes in Comuna 7, individualization and identification of the alleged kidnappers, who were captured in sectors of the San Luis and five cell phones were seized.
During the concentrated hearings, the 5 alleged members of the criminal structure did not accept the charges.