Camilo Torres
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Camilo Torres Martínez, is a Colombian criminal and drug trafficker
History edit
He was born in 1975 in Choco his parents in search of having money moved to Bogota they opened a food truck with which they earned money, working as a waiter until the age of 37 he decided to join the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia a paramilitary unit and drug trafficker until his dissolution decided to be part of a Colombian cartel
In 2008, Torres was mentioned in the Supreme Court of Justice during the trial that was brought against the former director of prosecutors of Medellín, Guillermo León Valencia, for benefiting several members of 'Los Urabeños', so that they managed to evade justice. Due to this, he was captured some time later along with John Freddy Manco and Felipe Sierra, on charges of drug trafficking and formation of groups outside the law, however the judge in the case, after considering a habeas corpus, determined that they had been raped. due process and released them. The Superior Court of Bogotá later sentenced the judge to 120 months in prison for having considered habeas corpus. Torres Martínez was captured in the early morning of July 2, 2012 in an exclusive hotel on Isla Múcura, near Cartagena, Colombia; where he celebrated his marriage, with an expensive party of more than a million dollars scheduled for eight days, of which they managed to celebrate six before the capture of Fritanga. About 200 people were invited to the party, including some celebrities from the Colombian show business and US police officers, which demonstrated his power of penetration in the national and international public spheres. Famous artists such as Colombians Silvestre Dangond and Jean Carlos Centeno of the Vallenato genre, and foreigners such as Puerto Ricans, performed on each day of the festival.
It had been difficult for the police and judicial bodies to capture Torres Martínez because the database of the National Registry of Civil Status indicated that Torres had died on December 2, 2010.
After the capture, Torres Martínez was prosecuted and sent to La Picota prison in Bogotá. For security reasons he was transferred and confined in the Palogordo Maximum and Medium Security Prison in Girón, Santander; and then transferred to the Maximum and Medium Security Prison of Valledupar, Cesar.
According to the Colombian authorities, another of the leaders of the criminal gang Los Urabeños.
In the case of the falsification of his death before the Registry, the Attorney General's Office accused and charged charges of "False document and procedural fraud" to the doctor Augusto Gallego, by issuing a false death certificate of Torres. He was also charged with forgery and procedural fraud. The death certificate was issued by Miriam Suárez, who was in charge of the Notary of Bogotá at that time, for which the Superintendence of Notaries and Registry ordered to investigate the official.
During his imprisonment in the Valledupar prison, Torres would have threatened the INPEC guards for having seized a cell phone in his possession, something that is considered contraband material.
Extradition edit
Torres Martínez was extradited to the United States on April 25 of 2013 where he had requirements before the United States justice system for sending several drug shipments to that country, to Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico and Panama. Torres Martínez boarded a DEA from the CATAM military air base, after his extradition was authorized by President Juan Manuel Santos, on March 4 of the same year.[1]
He is currently being held in a jail in Tampa, Florida.
Trial edit
On September 26, 2013, Torres pleaded guilty before a Florida court for shipping drugs, via speedboats and fishing boats, from the shores of the Colombian Caribbean to Honduras, and from Honduras to the United States.[2] Torres acknowledged that he coordinated the shipment of drugs starting in 2001. Two of the shipments sent by Torres were seized by the United States Coast Guard in the Caribbean Sea; in November 2004 and July 2005, totaling almost 5 tons.[2]
Capture figureheads edit
In April 2015, Colombian authorities captured Óscar Ernesto Eljach Gamboa in Rionegro, Antioquia, who allegedly legalized more than $10 billion of pesos in favor of Torres and Miguel Ángel Pérez Córdoba.