The victim was murdered during a robbery in December 2024 and his bank cards were used for purchases worth more than $12 million.
Ricardo González, 22, was captured in Cartagena for his alleged participation in the beating that caused the death of Jaime Moreno, a student at the University of Los Andes.
A learned judge sentenced Nathalia Carolina Vargas Salcedo for the crime of aggravated homicideafter evaluating the evidence presented by the Attorney General’s Office.
The decision was adopted in Medellín and constitutes a message of firmness against violent crimes.
According to the investigation carried out by a prosecutor from the Crimes Against Life Unit of the Medellín Section, the events occurred between the night of December 22 and the early morning of December 23, 2024, when the victim, a 37-year-old Ecuadorian citizen, contacted the now convicted woman through a social network. Later, they met in a commercial establishment in the La 70 sector.
The work of the judicial police made it possible to establish that, after spending several hours together and the man found himself in an apparent state of intoxication, he left accompanied by the convicted woman and another couple to a hotel.
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Hours later, the body of the foreign citizen was found in one of the rooms, with multiple blows and signs of strangulation.
The Prosecutor’s Office also demonstrated that several credit and debit cards were stolen from the victim, which were immediately used to make purchases and transactions for an amount greater than 12 million pesos in different establishments in the city.
For the crime of theft, Vargas Salcedo had already been previously sentenced, through a pre-agreement, to a sentence of 22 months and 12 days in prison. However, the new conviction for aggravated homicide, 33 years and 4 monthsis added to that sanction, guaranteeing that the defendant serves a prolonged stay deprived of liberty.
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The woman was captured on January 2 of this year by the National Police in the Aranjuez neighborhood. This decision is of first instance and legal remedies are available against it.
Source: Integrated Information System
