{"id":486769,"date":"2025-10-14T19:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/judge-imposes-preventive-prison-and-economic-guarantee-on-police-officers-accused-of-killing-men-in-la-barranquita-de-santiago\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:48:40","slug":"judge-imposes-preventive-prison-and-economic-guarantee-on-police-officers-accused-of-killing-men-in-la-barranquita-de-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/judge-imposes-preventive-prison-and-economic-guarantee-on-police-officers-accused-of-killing-men-in-la-barranquita-de-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge imposes preventive prison and economic guarantee on police officers accused of killing men in La Barranquita de Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santiago<\/strong>.- Judge Yerixa Cabral, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the judicial district of Santiago, imposed different coercive measures against eleven agents of the National Police accused of participating in the death of five men during an alleged exchange of gunfire that occurred on September 10 in the La Barranquita sector of this city.\n\nThe magistrate ordered three months of preventive detention against sergeants S\u00f3crates Fidel F\u00e9lix F\u00e9lix, Hairo Mateo Morillo, and the private Jos\u00e9 Octavio Jim\u00e9nez Pe\u00f1a, as well as corporal Yohandy Encarnaci\u00f3n.\n\nMeanwhile, Major \u00c1lvaro Paredes Paniagua, Captain Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez Rodr\u00edguez, Second Lieutenant Domingo de los Santos Vargas, Corporal Geyser Francisco \u00c1lvarez Rodr\u00edguez, Private Adri\u00e1n Miguel Villalona Pineda, and Major Hansel Michel Cuevas Carrasco, must pay an economic guarantee of one million pesos, appear periodically before the authorities and are prohibited from leaving the country.\n\nThe Public Ministry, represented by the head of the Specialized Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (Pepca), Wilson Camacho, had requested 18 months of preventive detention and that the case be declared complex, alleging the seriousness of the events and the agents&#8217; attempt to eliminate evidence.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can also read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/recesa-audiencia-coercion-policias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recess of coercion hearing against 11 police officers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAccording to the record, the police arrived in three vehicles at the establishment where the victims were located and, without a word, opened fire, causing the death of Edward Bernardo Pe\u00f1a Rodr\u00edguez, Carlos Enrique Guzm\u00e1n Navarro (alias Charly or Charli Chasc), Jos\u00e9 Vladimir Valerio Est\u00e9vez, Elvis Antonio Mart\u00ednez Rodr\u00edguez and Julio Alberto G\u00f3mez. The last two were inside a hairdressing salon located on Ol\u00edmpica Avenue, where the shooting took place.\n\nThe indictment details that the agents allegedly removed the DVRs from the security cameras of the premises and nearby businesses, as well as confiscating the cell phones of the people who recorded the event, in order to conceal evidence and obstruct the investigation.\n\nThe process of determining the measure of coercion extended for almost eight hours, amid strong security measures and extensive media coverage.\n\nUpon concluding the hearing, Deputy Attorney Wilson Camacho valued the court&#8217;s decision and reiterated the Public Ministry&#8217;s commitment to take the case to its ultimate consequences.\n\nFor his part, lawyer Esteban P\u00e9rez, representative of the family of Jos\u00e9 Vladimir Valerio Est\u00e9vez, expressed his disagreement with the decision and announced that they do not rule out appealing.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, lawyer Juan Carlos B\u00e1ez Peralta, defender of Major \u00c1lvaro Paredes Paniagua, considered the decision \u201cfair and balanced,\u201d although jurist Carlos Balc\u00e1cer criticized the ruling and questioned the Public Ministry&#8217;s actions during the process.<\/p>\n\n\nThe victims&#8217; families avoided making statements after the hearing concluded, visibly affected by the court&#8217;s decision.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago.- Judge Yerixa Cabral, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the judicial district of Santiago, imposed different coercive measures against eleven agents of the National Police accused of participating in the death of five men during an alleged exchange of gunfire that occurred on September 10 in the La Barranquita sector of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22D7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}