September 2, 2024, 4:41 PM
September 2, 2024, 4:41 PM
The latest investigations by the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc) allowed the arrest of three people linked to the shooting that took place at the entrance to the La Enconada community (Cotoca – Puerto Paila route), where Yermy Pastor Zampiery Suarez died and Erland Ivar García López, known as ‘El Colla’, who is considered the right-hand man of Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, was seriously injured.
The departmental director of the Felcc of Santa Cruz, Gustavo Astilla, stated that the three arrested They allegedly tried to help the two victims of the shooting, but they would also have manipulated the crime scene by hiding some objects.
Astilla revealed that in the Kia Picanto vehicle, black and license plate 6291-AFB, there were not only ‘El Colla’ and Yermy Pastor, but also A total of four people were being transported. Two were injured by gunshot wounds and the other two fled the scene.
The police have already identified the two occupants who fled, but it has not yet been confirmed whether they are among the three arrested who have links to ‘El Colla’ and Yermy Pastor.
Astilla confirmed that Three hitmen used rifles, heavy weapons 5.56 millimeter caliber, to shoot at the KIA car in which ‘El Colla’, Yermy Pastor and the other two occupants were traveling
Among the three arrested, according to official reports to which EL DEBER had access, A woman with the initials MFRG is found30 years old, who arrived at the entrance to La Enconada, in the municipality of Cotoca, in a white Chevrolet Montana pickup truck with license plate 6287-ITT.
The woman was the one who helped and transported Yermy Pastor Zampiery Suárez, 38, and Erland Ivar García López, 32, were taken to the municipal hospital in Cotoca.
In her statement to the Felcc, the woman revealed that she had planned to meet with ‘El Colla’ on Sunday, September 1. on a property near Guarayos. However, on the way he received a call from Pastor Zampiery, who told him to return to Santa Cruz. When he was passing through La Enconada he found a crowd of people, so he got off to help the two injured people and take them to the hospital, although Zampiery was already dead.
The woman said that ‘El Colla’ was taken to the Foianini clinic in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and that she had a close friendship with the deceased Pastor Zampiery. She also said that she has known ‘El Colla’ and some of his workers for a year.
In addition, the Police found evidence through security cameras and videos that the woman who He helped the shot victims and first entered the Kia carwhere she stole clothing and manipulated some objects belonging to the people inside. It is not ruled out that she made the weapons used by the occupants of the KIA car to confront the attackers disappear.
The Felcc also managed to establish that the deceased, Yermy Pastor Zampiery Suárez, has a criminal record trafficking in controlled substances, association criminal organization, possession and carrying of weapons and theft. However, he said he was dedicated to cattle raising.
‘The Colla’, spointed out to be Marset’s right hand man, He remains hospitalized at the Foianini clinic, with five bullet wounds in his body, three of which are compromising.
Silvestre Ibáñez, Erlan Ivar García’s lawyer, indicated that his client’s prognosis is reserved and that He has wounds that damaged part of his lung.which is why doctors intubated him and kept him in intensive care.
The lawyer said that his client has not been able to provide his statement of the facts before the Felcc Since he cannot speak, due to their clinical picture.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has initiated an investigation into the crime of murder; it seeks to find the perpetrators of the shooting that left one dead and one injured. Likewise, today the Felcc and the Prosecutor’s Office carried out a second search of the scene of the crime, at the entrance to La Enconada.
