The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice declared the extradition from Colombia of Yonaiker Martínez Carrión, alias Ojitos, who belonged to the criminal structure Tren de Aragua, to be admissible.
This decision is contained in judgment No. 409 drafted by Judge Carmen Marisela Castro and signed by her colleagues Elsa Gómez and Maikel Moreno.
The arrest warrant against Martínez Carrión was requested on February 17 by the 39th prosecutor with full jurisdiction, Miriam Yusnelly Lima Bernal, who believes that the subject is involved in the crimes of aggravated extortion, association, illicit trafficking of weapons and ammunition, obstruction of freedom of trade and terrorism, says the sentence.
These crimes were allegedly committed when the Aragua Train was coordinated from the Aragua Penitentiary Center, located in Tocorón, where its leader Héctor Guerrero Flores (Niño Guerrero) ordered extortion, murder and extortion of merchants, businessmen and agricultural producers.
When requesting the arrest warrant against the subject, prosecutor Lima Bernal pointed out that the Aragua Train uses telephone numbers acquired through telecommunications companies in Colombia, Chile, Panama, Ecuador and the United States to communicate with the victims through the messaging application WhatsApp and Instagram “in order to obtain an economic benefit in exchange for not attacking their lives, their families, their material assets and against commercial establishments.”
On February 17, the arrest warrant was issued against Martínez Carrión, according to a ruling by the 2nd National Special Anti-Terrorist Control Court.
The subject was captured on June 19 in the municipality of Belén, Department of Boyacá, Colombia, where he worked as a barber to mislead people.
Police officers from the aforementioned department stated that the subject had been living in that town for two years with the purpose of “mobilizing resources and people to establish new criminal cells in Colombia and/or make connections with Colombian criminal organizations.”
On June 27, the Criminal Chamber was informed by Yoimara Meléndez, General Director of the Office of Consular Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the ninety-day period to submit to Colombia the formal extradition request against Martínez expired on September 17, 2024.
The magistrates analyzed the extradition request activated by the Prosecutor’s Office and verified compliance with the requirements imposed by the laws on the matter. Based on this, they declared the extradition of the subject to be appropriate and promised Colombia that he will be tried in accordance with the criteria of Venezuelan laws.
The Aragua Train structure operated until September 20, 2023 in the so-called Tocorón prison, the day the Government intervened in said establishment. Hours before the takeover, El Niño Guerrero and his closest circle escaped. One of them, his brother Gerso Isaac Guerrero Flores, was handed over to Venezuela by the Spanish authorities on July 11.
El Niño Guerrero was organizing violence in Caracas after the June 28 elections, President Nicolás Maduro reported.
