Alleged murderer of patrolman Pablo Vargas sent to prison in the municipality of La Mesa

The Cundinamarca Prosecutor General's Office, in a joint work with the Sijín Judicial Police, managed to get a guarantee judge to issue an assurance measure in a prison center against David Caballero Núñez, alias David, accused of being responsible for the murder of police patrolman Pablo Enrique Vargas Gómez, who was allegedly killed in order to steal his motorcycle.

According to authorities, suspicions of the integrity of patrolman Pablo Enrique Vargas began when he was reported missing on November 2, 2021, but later days later his body was found shot in the head, on the road that leads from the municipality of Mesitas del Colegio to Bogotá.

With the evidence collected, information obtained from human sources and the citizens' complaint, the uniformed members of the National Police followed up the alleged murderer David Caballero Núñez, alias David, who was initially reported in Tolima and later placed in the home of a relative in Barranquilla department of the Atlantic, where he was finally captured.

The prisoner, who is in a prison center in La Mesa, has in that municipality and surrounding areas of the department of Cundinamarca, 20 investigations into cases of armed theft of motorcycles.

On the other hand, on the Caribbean coast the authorities also managed to capture a person responsible for murdering a policeman, this criminal apparently belonged to the Los Rastrojos gang currently known as the Gulf Clan.

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 substructure Luis Alfonso Echavarría of the Gulf Clan, which offends in San Pablo and throughout the department of Bolívar.

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