The Bogotá Metropolitan Police captured a former police patrolman who used all the clothing of a traffic officer to set up false checkpoints, deceive drivers and ask them for money to avoid imposing fines.
The 30-year-old man, identified by the surname García Ramírez, was captured while carrying out a false checkpoint with falsified public documents in the town of Antonio Nariño, in the south of the country’s capital.
The former Police patrolman had left the institution by his own decision in 2012. From that moment on he dedicated himself to committing crimes and already had a criminal record because in 2014 he had been captured for impersonation.
“In the last few hours, a citizen was captured for the crimes of improper use of military and police clothing, illegal carrying of weapons, use of a false public document, who was caught impersonating police activities,” said the Transit Police. from Bogota.
The former police officer carried out false checkpoints to steal large sums of money from his victims-credit Transit Police/social network X.
The detainee was dedicated to carrying out false checkpoints with a Traffic Police uniform and thus deceived drivers to deprive them of large sums of money in exchange for making a summons.
The man who posed as an active police officer found a motorcycle identified as an institution vehicle and a firearm loaded with ammunition.
“He was made available for the crimes of illegal carrying of weapons, impersonation of authority and exclusive use of uniforms and clothing of the Military Forces and the Police,” said Lieutenant Colonel Wilson Barrios.
The detainee will be prosecuted for the crimes of improper use of police clothing, illegal possession of weapons and use of a false public document; he has a sentence of 3 to 6 years in a penitentiary center.
Former Bucaramanga Transit Director was captured
The Attorney General’s Office managed to capture Rafael Núñez, former director of Bucaramanga Transit, according to his defense lawyer for alleged irregularities when he joined the Board of Directors of the Transportation Terminal of the capital of Santander.
The case would be linked to the investigation of the alleged irregular construction of a service station at the Bucaramanga Transportation Terminal that would have had an extra cost of more than 1 billion pesos.
The 4th Criminal Court for the Control of Guarantees of Bucaramanga, decentralized in Girón, announced the hearing to legalize the arrest for the events that occurred in 2014, excessive expenses and administrative mismanagement that are still under investigation.
Along with Núñez, terminal workers identified as: the former secretaries of the Terminal, Marisol Pinilla Rueda and Olga Patricia Pinilla, were also prosecuted; Héctor Javier Gómez Suárez; Wilson Mora’s campaign manager for the Bucaramanga Council in 2015, Roberto Rodríguez González and the former Terminal contracts supervisor, Óscar Alonso Villabona García.
The Attorney General’s Office would charge the 6 captured officials with charges for the crimes of falsification of a private document, illicit administration, corruption of the voter and conspiracy to commit a crime.
Likewise, former Bucaramanga councilor Wilson Mora plans to surrender in the coming days because he is out of the country: “I am traveling and until tomorrow night I arrive in Bucaramanga to present myself. I have been residing in another apartment for a year for work reasons. And this weekend I’m on a vacation plan with my wife. I found out yesterday and I already contacted the lawyer to present myself the day after tomorrow,” Mora stated for the La Vanguardia media. With Infobae
