Alleged network of sexual exploitation and drug trafficking fell in Cartagena

After two years of investigation, a prosecutor from the Bolívar Section’s Sexual Crimes Unit, achieved the prosecution of eight alleged members of a structure dedicated to pimping in Cartagena.

With the seizure of evidentiary material in which it is evidenced that the detainees were using women of different ages to prostitute themselves in the vicinity of the hotel zone of Cartagena, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, the National Police and the Humane Society International (HSI) Agency of the United States, dismantled a network of human trafficking that, through social networks, offered services for foreigners.

Through the ‘Falcón’ operation, the authorities managed to capture and prosecute eight members of the gang in Cartagena and Bogotá. The Prosecutor’s Office charged the detainees with the crimes of: conspiracy to commit a crime, procuring, encouragement to prostitution, human trafficking; Y trafficking, manufacture or carrying of narcotics.

A guarantee control judge from Cartagena gave an intramural security measure to the leader of the network and imposed house arrest on the rest of the members, to meet the provisions for the prevention of contagion of COVID-19.

According to the authorities, the gang would have carried out its illegal activity in the hotel zone of Cartagena since 2018 and they would be linked to activities of sexual exploitation of girls, adolescents and adult women, in addition to drug trafficking. Their ‘modus operandi’ consisted of capturing minors and low-income women of foreign nationality, who, under threats, were exploited for commercial purposes and had their documents withheld..

In addition, the gang had apartments to serve the interested parties with whom it marketed, it also used social networks to offer tourist packages that included the sexual services of the victims, especially foreign citizens.

One of the most remembered controversial antecedents of sexual exploitation during the last decade in Cartagena was the case of alias ‘La Madame’, the leader of a network that subjected at least 250 minors to all kinds of harassment in one year.

The eight prosecuted by the Prosecutor’s Office in Cartagena are:

Luis Alfredo Sanabria, alias ‘Alejandro’, supposed head of the organization, captured in Chapinero, in the east of Bogotá. It would be responsible for attracting women of legal age and adolescents to offer their sexual services through the Internet.

Emilia Carvajal Consuegra, would be responsible for alerting on the movements of the immigration authorities. She would be the owner of one of the apartments arranged for illicit activities.

David Mauricio Orozco Murillo, alias ‘El Cali’, allegedly responsible for the recruitment of minors, especially foreigners in vulnerable conditions to traffic narcotics. He would have a history of deportation from the United States to Colombia and would have been in jail for drug-related crimes.

Jose Luis Coneo Delgado, alias ‘el Gordo’, accused of coordinating drug distribution. Union of planning events for foreigners, picking them up at the airport and taking them to the place where they would be hosted to take the girls to adolescents for their exploitation.

Sony Navas de Arco, aka ‘Tony’. He would be in charge of delivering narcotics to the victims so that they could be delivered to clients.

Juan Carlos Escorcia Sierra, aka ‘El Flaco’. Apparently he was the liaison between the foreign nationals and the pimps, and the one who escorted the clients for all matters related to drug purchases.

Ana Emilia Rodelo Mejía. The woman would be linked to the recruitment of women and offered apartments and tourist services to foreigners.

Gerson Sierra de la Barrera, aka ‘Torito’. Drug sales and distribution activities are attributed to him.

Of the aforementioned investigated, alias ‘El Gordo’, ‘Tony’, ‘El Flaco’ and ‘Torito’ accepted their responsibility for the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, human trafficking; and trafficking, manufacture or possession of narcotics.

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