Four arrested for the murder of a police officer in La Guardia plead guilty and accept sentences of 30 and 15 years in prison

After the police mobilization and the apprehension of seven people linked to the murder of police officer Oliver Ramiro Mendoza At the Mirador de La Guardia, four men -including the main perpetrator- accepted their responsibility for the crime and submitted to an abbreviated procedure for murder and complicity.

After the crime recorded at dawn on Tuesday, April 4, the Prosecutor’s Office -with the presence of the departmental prosecutor Róger Mariaca and the Special Force to Fight Crime, led by Colonel Julio César Cossio- gave clarified the event that shocked society.

Among the seven apprehended is Ovidio Robles, identified as the main ringleader of the assaults and robberies who accepted all the charges and a sentence of 30 years without the right to pardon.

The other three accepted a 15-year sentence for crimes of complicity in murder and others. The other three people will be guarded in the course of the next few hours. Among them are two women who will be brought before a judge.

According to investigations, it was a gang of robbers that had been operating for some time in the Mirador area. This place is the center of walk of tourists and lovers in the municipality of La Guardia.

The couples were the favorites of the assailants, who waited, robbed with weapons, snatched their belongings, money and others.

The most serious thing, according to testimonies already prosecuted by the Prosecutor’s Office, is that the women are subjected to sexual abuse in front of their partners whom they intimidated with weapons and made them kneel down to witness the rapes.

During the operations and raids, more than 10 people were arrested, but several were released when it became clear that they had nothing to do with the crime against Sergeant Mendoza.

Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday) the prosecutor RÓger Mariaca verified in the Felcc de La Guardia the procedural acts to prevent acts of injustice from being committedhe said.

For the Police, it is one of the most violent events.

In the latest investigations, it was established that the blue car found belonged to a couple who was in the place and at that time was the victim of assault by criminals.

The woman was sexually abused and at that moment police from the Felcc de La Guardia came.

There are testimonies that the policeman Oliver Ramiro Mendoza jumped in to avoid the assault and was assassinated in the police vehicle where he was with his comrades.