On the Halloween night of 2023, the municipality of El Carmen de Viboralin the east of Antioquia, He witnessed an atrocious crime that had been unpunished until July 23.
On that occasion, within the framework of the celebration of the Day of Costumes, A man identified as Herson Farit Baena Estrada was violently murdered by an individual belonging to one of the criminal groups organized with the greatest experience in the Aburrá Valley and whose tentacles began to expand through Antioquia in recent years.
Main park of El Carmen de Viboral. Photo:Courtesy.
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Captured Sicarial Coordinator of ‘El Mesa’
As reported by the commander of the Police Department of Antioquia, Colonel Óscar Mauricio Rico Guzmán, Alias Yanas was identified The coordinator of the Sicarial Component of ‘El Mesa’ And that he barely has three years of criminal experience, He led Baena, who according to sources from the municipality, was his friend, to the wooded area of this region.
There, ‘Yan’ suddenly pounced on Baena and attacked him with a white weapon. The report issued by legal medicine after the crime indicates that The victim received 15 stabs caused by death at the scene.
Baena’s body was found in the wooded area of El Carmen de Viboral hours after the crime and initially was not indicated by the person responsible for it Meanwhile ‘Yan’ escaped from the region.
Alias Yan was captured on July 23. (Reference image) Photo:Supplied.
However, since the end of 2024, uniformed in the Police Criminal Investigation Section (Sijín) They followed the trail of this crime that shocked the community of Carmen de Viboral. In the investigative process, they manage to gather the necessary evidence to issue arrest warrant ‘Yan’ who had been the last person with whom Baena had been seen in life.
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Short trajectory, long background list
Finallyon July 23 men from the Sijín captured the indicated indicated of killing Baena Estrada of 15 stabs on Halloween night of 2023.
After his capture, judicial sources close to the investigation revealed that despite his short criminal career, Alias Yan presents a history of crimes such as simple kidnapping aggravated with physical torture, aggravated intrafamily violence, damage to a good, illegal constraint and qualified theft.
Alias Yan, a sicarial coordinator of ‘El Mesa’, has a criminal trajectory of just three years. Photo:Supplied.
In addition, as mentioned, because of its severity ‘Yan’ quickly climbed into the ranks of ‘El Mesa’ and It was positioned as one of the sicarial coordinators of the criminal structure whose operation is mainly concentrated in the north of the Aburrá Valley and for some years, in the East Antioquia.
Aka Yan was presented to a guarantee control judge who charged the crime of aggravated homicide and imposed intramural assurance measure to assume the judicial process against him after bars.
Nicolás Tamayo Escalante
Nation journalist, in Medellín.
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