Juan Pablo Rodríguez, 24, and Luis Horta Daza, 40, were presented before a judge this Friday, the two captured for the murder of the emerald maker Maximiliano Cañón Castellanosregistered on Thursday afternoon in front of a restaurant in Parque de la 93, in Bogotá.
According to what the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office said in the proceeding, it was Horta who drew the weapon and shot at Cañón. He even, he would have tried to attack the companion of the emerald, but he did not achieve his goal due to a fault in the weapon.
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The prosecuting body recognized the reaction of the Police, who managed to capture the two men a few blocks from the scene of the events, after a chase after the hitmen escaped on a motorcycle.
“As soon as they fall off their motorcycle they start to flee on foot, and one of them tries to use his weapon against the agents,” said the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office, adding that none of the detainees have permission to use firearms.
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in the diligence, The Prosecutor’s Office presented its arguments to legalize the capture of Rodríguez and Daza and prosecute them for homicide and illegal possession of weapons.
A Glock 17 Austria brand pistol with nine cartridges was seized from the detainees, as well as the motorcycle on which they intended to flee.
Alert for possible resurgence of ‘green war’
The authorities of the emerald zone of Boyacá and those of the country’s capital are on alert for a possible reactivation of the ‘green war’.
In 2014, Maximiliano Cañón had been accused of murdering Pedro Simón Rincón, son of the emerald maker Pedro Rincón, alias Pedro Orejas, who is currently imprisoned in a United States prison.
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That year, the Court of Tunja confirmed the sentence of 20 years in prison against ‘Pedro Orejas’ for the murder of Miguel Pinilla Pinilla, who was an escort for the emerald maker murdered this week in the park on 93.
In March of last year, Jorge Enrique Gómez, another member of the deceased’s clan, was assassinated in a parking lot in downtown Bogotá.czar of emeralds’ Víctor Carranza and close to the businessman from the same sector Hernando Sánchez.
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The latter was the same one who survived nine bullets in an attack perpetrated in a shopping center in the middle of Bogotá’s Zona Rosa in 2012. And in July 2021 he was also assassinated in the Pablo VI neighborhood of Bogotá, the former drug kingpin Luis Agustín Caicedo Velandia, who was close to businessmen from the emeralds.
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