To prison alias Damián Mono, alleged leader of FARC dissidents

Damian Alberto Marín Sepulveda, alias Damián Mono, was captured in flagrante, authorities reported

A leader of the FARC dissidents was captured, as announced recently by the Attorney General's Office. This is Damian Alberto Marín Sepulveda, alias Damián Mono, alleged leader of the Adán Izquierdo structure.

According to the authorities, alias Damián Mono was captured in flagrance by members of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) and the National Police in the Alto Piedras village, located in the municipality of Ceilán, jurisdiction of the municipality of Bugalagrande (Valle del Cauca).

The alleged leader of the FARC dissidents was surprised by the authorities when he was carrying a 5.56 mm caliber M16A4 rifle with a 40 mm grenade launcher, according to the Attorney General's Office. For these events, Damián Alberto Marín Sepulveda was sheltered with an insurance measure in a prison establishment.

After carrying out the respective investigations, the judicial police established that the weapon seized from the defendant, had been stolen from the National Police during an ambush recorded on October 27, 2020, in La Marina, jurisdiction of Tuluá, Valle del Cauca.

It is noteworthy that thanks to the photographs shared by the investigating body, it is possible to observe that at the time the alleged offender was captured, he apparently had an injury to his right hand, so he was wearing a plaster.

The accused accused alias Damián Mono for the crime of manufacturing, trafficking and carrying weapons, ammunition for restricted use, of exclusive use of forces or explosives.

Likewise, the Prosecutor's Office reported that Damián Alberto Marín Sepúlveda did not accept the charges against him.

They denounce that FARC dissidents trained young people to perpetrate a pistol plan in Ciudad Bolivar

Recently, there was a serious complaint made by the inhabitants of one of the towns with the most problems of violence in Bogotá, Ciudad Bolívar. According to some accounts, members of the FARC dissidents were instrumentalizing minors from that area of the capital.

In the television news report Noticias Uno, they learned that a complainant went to the Secretariat of Security to warn that the recruits are being taken from the Meissen, Arborizadora and Altos de la Estancia neighborhoods to train in rural areas of Icononzo (Tolima), within the Sumapaz region. There, he said, they are teaching them about the handling of long weapons, explosives and they would also be enlisting him to perpetrate a pistol plan against the uniformed men of that town.

The man reiterated that 'Mechas' and 'Donkey', the criminal leaders of the self-described dissidents fronts 33 and 10, are responsible for the attack on the CAI, and assured that it was a street dweller, addicted to narcotics, who activated the explosive.

In addition, the subject assured that they are planning attacks against two members of the Historical Pact who reside in that town and against some of the former FARC combatants, who are now congressmen of the Commons Party.

In Noticias Uno they consulted with the District Security Secretariat, where they were told that they transferred the information to the competent authorities.

“The version, like any information brought to the attention of the Secretariat, is transferred to the research agencies for analysis and verification in order to confirm or discard it,” they said.

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