The macabre crime that shook Bogota this August 18 begins to clarify. In fact, this Saturday the mayor claudia lopez He stated that the murders of four people found in a truck have to do with the drug trafficking activities of former police officer Juan Carlos Useche.
López also confirmed the identity of the four people found dead. They are three Colombians and a Venezuelan citizen.
Juan Carlos Useche, the former police officer who was the first identified; Leonardo Sanabria, escort; and Leidy Alejandra Betancourt, Useche’s partner, are the Colombians who died in the crime.
“Who they were going for was Juan Carlos Useche,” López added. He added that this former police officer was linked to drug trafficking and money laundering activities.
They identify the body of a Venezuelan in crime in Bogotá
The other person killed is José Perosso Zabala, an escort of Venezuelan origin, who had a history of possession of weapons and had been captured, prosecuted and – at the time of the crime – should have been under house arrest.
Regarding this citizen, Mayor López blamed Inpec and said “it was an obvious failure” of that institution. «He had a prisoner in his custody and did not make it effective. He was not serving his sentence, he continued in criminal activities and ended up murdered, “she said.
On the main hypothesis, the authorities point out that it was a settling of scores between criminals.
The mayor of Bogotá ruled out that the criminal gang ‘Tren de Aragua’ is related to these events, according to the progress of the investigation.
The authorities are already clear regarding the route that the Toyota van, with CIE-835 license plates, made in Bogotá during the night of August 18. It was also known that Useche acquired the armored vehicle in March of this year.
There is also a key video in the investigation of the macabre crime, in which the truck is seen passing through the Andes toll.
The mayor also explained that everything indicates that the murders were committed outside of Bogotá, with coup de grace around 3 pm on Thursday, and they were left abandoned on the North highway on the night of the same day.
For information that helps to solve who is behind the crime, the Police offer a reward of 20 million pesos.
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