Prison for man who extorted intimate videos from woman in Cartagena

A prosecutor in Cartagena asked a security judge to order an assurance measure against Javier Cáceres Zúñiga, alias El Javie, who is allegedly responsible for the crime of extortion. According to the entity's investigative proceedings, the defendant is accused of allegedly making illegal economic demands on a woman, in exchange for not disseminating some videos, supposedly intimate of her.

According to the Attorney General's Office, the incidents investigated occurred in the Olaya Herrera neighborhood of the capital of Bolívar, where the victim, 35 years old, asked the victim, aged 35, 500 thousand pesos, in exchange for not divulging the aforementioned videos on social networks.

The work of the authorities led to the 55-year-old alias El Javie being captured in flagrante by the National Police when he received the money, apparently as a result of extortion. “In response to the request of the Attorney General's Office, a guarantee control judge ruled that the defendant must comply with the security measure in the Ternera de La Heroica prison,” the entity's communication specified.

In other news related to the crime of extortion, it was reported in recent days that the Norte de Santander section of the Attorney General's Office arrested two people who allegedly stole a cell phone from a priest in the municipality of Los Patios, after which they tried to extort him with alleged personal content of the appliance.

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On January 31, Brayan Andrés Duarte Eusse, a 34-year-old resident of the municipality of El Zulia, and the priest shared some leisure time together. Afterwards, the syndicate took the cleric's cell phone. Three days later, Duarte and Mr. Juan David Meza Collazos, 23, began calling the priest and intimidating him.

In the calls, the criminals assured him that on his computer they had found an intimate and compromising video of the affected priest, the details of which were not released to the public. Then, they demanded that he hand over six million pesos in exchange for returning the phone.

Otherwise, the priest was threatened to hand over the equipment to Monsignor Libardo Garcés, the bishop of Cúcuta and direct leader of the cleric, so that he would know the contents of the recording.

The priest planned a way out of the situation: he agreed with the criminals to deliver four million pesos in a central area of the municipality where he is parish priest. The exchange would take place in front of a supermarket in the Pisarreal neighborhood.

However, before going there, he put the Gaula team of the National Police on notice of the situation, who prepared a discreet operation to capture them. On February 7, when the criminals came to the meeting with the parish priest to receive their loot, they were surprised by the police officers.

Once apprehended, they were brought before a judge of guarantees for the crime of attempted aggravated extortion and, in the case of Duarte Eusse, the crime of theft. The judge decided to send them to La Modelo prison in Cúcuta while their sentence is being decided.

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