A video of him threatening merchants, police officers and prosecutors sparked a crisis and alert not only in Barranquilla, this Tuesday he was transferred with handcuffs and chains, to a maximum security prison. Negro Ober “will not have any kind of preferential treatment,” Inpec announced.
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INPEC, with strong security measures and guarded, transferred Negro Ober from the Girón prison (Santander) to the maximum security prison of La Dorada (Caldas), his eighth transfer in less than two years, since his capture.
A video of him threatening merchants, police and prosecutors after the capture of his partner, sparked a crisis and alert not only in Barranquilla.
The transfer took place this Tuesday in the midst of strong custody, with handcuffs and chains on their hands and feet.
He himself, he complained, “is the first time they put chains on me. Damn it!” he exclaimed.
They took him in chains.
In his new cell.
They left him in his cell, where he will be alone, and according to INPEC, without access to any benefits.
No cell phones, jewelry or other items that are prohibited.
The commotion was over the weekend, the appearance of the alleged leader of a gang of extortionists in the Atlantic, threatening the Prosecutor’s Office.
El Negro Ober and “his luxuries” in jail
He said in said video, in which he appeared eating in his cell, showing jewelry, in addition to the use of a cell phone; all this was prohibited in prisons, which had to “release my wife.”
He pointed out that prosecutors, police officers and businessmen were going to die, “you mess with an innocent, me too, and I’m going to kill you businessmen.” It was his sentence.
Ober Ricardo Martínez Gutiérrez said that he “requested an urgent interview” and “even with Petro.” He pointed out that: “I take responsibility for my actions, my wife doesn’t have shit to do with my brother.”
“Prosecutor Pecci died in this shit, well, what else… they release my wife or I don’t answer,” he said.
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After the scandal, on Saturday night the police and Inpec seized Negro Ober’s cell, the unauthorized items they found were seized and are part of the evidence of the investigation.
At least 15 officials, including custodians and others from the Girón prison, are under investigation. Who allowed cell phone access?
It’s not just about the video, but he could with that same mobile equipment, he could be issuing orders for his people outside to continue extorting in Barranquilla and Soledad. Just as it happened when he was in La Picota and they transferred him to Santander.
eighth transfer
In October 2021, the police were finally able to capture “black Ober”, who, seeing himself surrounded, raised his hands and asked that his life be respected. He feared that he would be shot down as “Víctor Carlos”, another ringleader.
Since then, it has been “a whole mess” for the prison authorities of the country, and of the Atlantic.
They have since moved it, of eight prisons: Melgar, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Girón and now La Dorada.
The director of the Girón prison was dismissed.
Daniel Gutiérrez, director of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute of Colombia, said that there are also responsibilities for omission.
