The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) notified Colombia about the arrest (for extradition purposes) of an appointed woman to drug and kill a man in the neighboring country. The detainee is Marinyer Nathaly Vargas Salcedo (31), who was captured last July 18 in San Diego (Carabobo), according to the International Police Investigation Directorate (Interpol).
Together with Vargas Salcedo, his concubine Óscar Andrés Ramírez Reyes (43) was captured, who is a collaborator in the homicide committed by the woman. Media from Colombia published last January in Medellín, Colombia, by Vargas Salcedo.
The events occurred on December 23, 2024 at a hotel located on 57th Street, in the center of Medellín (Antioch, Colombia). Javier Alejandro Vásquez Chacón, from Ecuadorian nationality, in the company of two women and a man; Among them Vargas Salcedo. The hotel cameras recorded that moment.
“He was unconscious, product of a substance that allegedly provided him. In that sense, he was transferred with help to a room,” says the investigation.
Subsequently, Ecuadorian’s body was found in a room in the aforementioned hotel. “According to the Legal Medicine opinion, he died violently for strangulation,” says the sentence of the Criminal Chamber. “The three people involved in criminal conduct operate through appointments through applications with foreign people, using scopolamine (drugs) to steal their belongings,” adds the police act inserted in the judgment of the Criminal Chamber.
Because of this, Interpol Bogotá-Colombia published last February two chips with blue notification destined to locate Salcedo Vargas and Ramírez Reyes. Both are required by the Prosecutor 046 Local of Medellín-Antioquia, by means of arrest warrant No. 028 of 12/31/2024, to appear in the criminal process for the crimes of aggravated homicide, qualified and aggravated theft.
The detainees were presented last June 20 in the State and Municipal Seventh Court in functions of control of the Carabobo State Circuit from where they sent the file to the Criminal Chamber to issue a pronouncement with respect to the extradition raised by Colombia.
When analyzing the file, the magistrates recalled that the Magna Carta prohibits the extradition of their nationals. In this regard, they clarify that “if the person requested in extradition is national of the Venezuelan State, it will be necessary to accompany the means of evidence that allow their judgment, so that it can be processed in Venezuelan territory.”
To prepare this trial, the Criminal Chamber determined that, what is adjusted to law is to notify the Republic of Colombia, which has 90 continuous days to submit the formal request for extradition and the necessary judicial documentation that supports it, in the file followed to Vargas Salcedo and its concubine Carmen Marisela Castro and Elsa Gómez Criminal Room.
