By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Prosecutor of San José yesterday was gave a
year of preventive detention to 17 suspects of a
gang linked to drug trafficking and homicide.
The judge spent five days giving his trial
verdict, after Judicial agents arrested 24 people
suspected of drug trafficking on Thursday, April
3.
As A.M. Costa Rica reported on that case, agents
of the narcotics section of the Judicial
Investigation Organization conducted 23 raids and
arrested 19 men and 5 women suspected of national
drug trafficking.
Some may have been involved in the murder of a
woman surnamed Gómez, 19 years old, which occurred
in May 2018.
The Public Prosecutor's Office, said: "the gang
members had different functions, such as storing,
dosing, distributing and selling drugs."
"The group is also linked to the murder of a woman
with surnames Gómez Vásquez, which occurred
between May 13 and 15, 2018. After apparently
depriving her of her freedom, transferring her to
the place known as Ciudadela July 25 in Hatillo*,
where she would have been shot and, even burned
alive," said the prosecutor in its statement.
The raids were carried out in the communities of Curridabat*, Tres Rios*, Cartago*, Desamparados*, Puntarenas*, Naranjo* and the La Reforma Prison* in San
Rafael de Alajuela.
The agents' report that throughout the
investigation they developed during the year, they
determined that this gang distributed and had
centers selling crack cocaine, and marijuana, in
different sectors of San José and Naranjo* in the
province of Alajuela.
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"During the operation, were seized more than ¢ 4
million colones (about $6,671), more than a
thousand dollars, 5 pistol-type firearms, 9 and
38-millimeter ammunition for firearms, cocaine,
ketamine and 7 bags containing an approximate to
10 thousand crack stones," said the police in its
report.
According to the investigation, this gang was
apparently led by Costa Rican man surnamed
Martínez-Fajardo, known as Pollo (chicken in
Spanish language), who is being held in jail in
Nicaragua for drug trafficking.
It is presumed that his two brothers and another
man, known as Enano (dwarf in Spanish language)
received the orders of Martinez-Fajardo to
continue with the business of selling drugs.
The operation involved more than 300 specialists,
among them, investigators, prosecutors, judges,
and police officers.
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Should
the judge expedite the trial of the gang
members due to the seriousness of the charges?
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