To prison a man who paid hitmen to kill his father in San Andrés

The victim was a recognized merchant on the island, according to the Prosecutor’s Office. His son, who accepted the charges, planned the crime to keep his father’s assets and savings.

Authorities convicted a man who accepted to have been the mastermind behind his father’s murder. The events occurred on the island of San Andrés, on August 24 of this year, when armed men assassinated Juan Mauricio Peralta Mejía, a well-known merchant on the island. At the time the crime was carried out, the victim was accompanied by his son.

In the middle of the investigation, the authorities captured the material perpetrators of the crime and, while the investigation was progressing, the case pointed to Juan David Peralta Murgueito, the victim’s son. Finally, the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office were able to establish that the latter hired some hitmen to assassinate his father.

The man paid $ 12 million and provided the perpetrators with enough information to carry out the murder. In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office determined that Peralta Murgueito had financial interests to orchestrate the plan because he intended to appropriate his father’s assets and savings, which amounted to about $ 800 million.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office reported that Peralta Murgeito was captured in search and search procedures at the end of October in the Sari eBay neighborhood of San Andrés. The young man accepted the charges imposed on him by a prosecutor from the San Andrés section of aggravated homicide and was sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison.

The same day Anthron Villa García was also detained, who was also sheltered with a security measure in a prison facility. Among those prosecuted for the crime is a minor who was apprehended on September 10 last.