To jail allegedly responsible for the murder of a patrolman of the National Police

In record time, the Attorney General's Office succeeded in bringing to justice the suspect responsible for the murder of patrolman Jorge Bernal of the National Police Intelligence Service (Sipol), which occurred on February 26. The capture of Bairon Yovanny Cuesta Garizabalo took place on March 19 in the municipality of San Pablo (Bolívar).

“Bairon Yovanny Cuesta, alleged member of the Gulf Clan, would be the one who attacked the uniformed man with a firearm. Cuesta Garizabalo was charged by a prosecutor of the Life Unit for the crimes of aggravated homicide and the manufacture, trafficking, carrying of firearms and ammunition that were raided, being sheltered with a security measure in a prison center,” said the director of prosecutors of Magdalena Medio, Fabiola Wilches.

The judicial report of the investigating body states that Bernal was just outside the Prosecutor's Office, “when he was approached by two subjects on a Yamaha XTZ 125 motorcycle, where the barbecue man draws a firearm and shoots him several times.”

A day after the events, General Jorge Luis Vargas, director of the National Police, expressed his condolences to the family of the murdered uniformed man through Twitter and promised that the institution would bring those responsible to justice.

“By murdering the cops of the country they are not going to intimidate us. We all hurt the death of our patrolman Jorge Bernal in San Pablo (Bolívar). To his family, all the solidarity of the Colombian Police; we will persecute the perpetrators of the crime tirelessly until they are captured,” said the high official at the time.

Colonel Alexander Sánchez Acosta, commander of the police in El Magdalena Medio, explained that Bernal Rojas has been working on intelligence against terrorism for three years, and against the criminal manifestations of armed groups that commit crimes in this region of the country, including the Luis Alfonso substructure Echavarría del Golfo Clan, who offends in San Pablo and throughout the department of Bolívar.

The Government of Bolivar had offered a reward of up to 50 million pesos for information that would establish those responsible for the murder of the uniformed man attached to the police intelligence section.

Before a judge of guarantees in Bolívar, the entity said that Cuesta Garizabalo, who belongs to the Luis Alfonso Echavarría Substructure of the paramilitary group, records court notes for the crimes of homicide, carrying and trafficking in firearms, a concert to commit an aggravated crime. And he has a valid arrest warrant for the crime of concert to commit an aggravated crime for the purpose of manufacturing, trafficking and carrying firearms.

On the same day of the capture of Cuesta Garizabalo, two other alleged members of the Luis Alfonso Echavarría terrorist substructure of the Gulf Clan fell. José Gil Mattos Carrillo alias' Turbo 'or' Mattos' and José Daniel Molano Pantoja alias' Veneco ', were captured and sent to jail for the crime of illegal carrying of firearms.

During the search, a revolver, 15 cartridges, two cell phones, three communication radios and two payroll manuscript notebooks of the members of the organization were found. According to the information provided, 'Turbo' and 'Veneco' have an important track record in the criminal structure. The first would be the urban leader of the Luis Alfonso Echavarría Substructure.

Investigative work lasting several months led the authorities to Barrancabermeja, where they were evading justice and, apparently, carrying out intelligence and logistical work to carry out criminal activities of this criminal group in the 'Oil Port'.

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