The 22-year-old man, known in the criminal world as Jarvin, had been carrying out criminal activities for four years as a member of the Dagoberto Ramos Mobile Column.
Troops of the Military Gaula (Anti-Extortion and Anti-Kidnapping Group) of the Ninth Brigade, the National Police - DIJIN and the Sixth Prosecutor's Office of the Special Investigation Unit, conducted the arrest of one of the alleged co-authors of the homicide of the indigenous leader Jairo Ortiz, murdered on December 21, 2019 in the Río Negro village of the municipality of Jaira, in the department of Huila.
The arrest was reported in the municipality of Nátaga, after months of investigation and follow-up, there came the operation of the Military Forces to enforce the court order for the crimes of homicide in a protected person, association to commit crimes, manufacture, trafficking, carrying or possession of firearms and forced displacement.
According to the evidence collected by the authorities, the individuals known as alias Jarvin together with alias Cuca received orders from alias Diomedes, alleged members of the Fifth Group of the Mobile Column Dagoberto Ramos, who would have perpetrated the murder of Jairo Ortiz, indigenous leader and caretaker of the Nassa Reservation since 2003; the individuals would have fled to the department of Cauca.
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Alias Jarvin, apparently would have entered the illegal structure in the year 2018 conducting activities as a member of the Support Network for Residual Structures, RAER. The following year he would have been incorporated into the armed group, from where he would have collected extorted money, threats that generated displacement and the murder of the indigenous leader.
The zone of interference would have been consolidated in the village of Río Chiquito, Inzá and Itaibe in Cauca, the village of Yarumales, Patio Bonito, the village of Río Negro in Loira, the populated center of Pacarní and the municipalities of Nátaga, Paicol and Tesalia.
For the intelligence agencies, with the arrest of this individual accused of being alias Jarvin, the strengthening of the armed subsystem is interrupted, its financial scaffolding is weakened, which is based on the illicit activities liked to the collection of money from extortion against the productive groups of Huila and Cauca and with it the forced displacement of families for not accessing the payment of the so-called “vaccines”.
It is an operational result that in the same way neutralizes the plans for territorial expansion and selective killings and illegal recruitment of minors.
Source: Press, National Army of Colombia
