Military officers arrested for trading stolen arms
Military officers arrested for trading stolen arms
posted by Mimi Yagoub
Dec 19, 2013
Four men, two of them active soldiers, were arrested on Wednesday after being accused of trading arms stolen from the army’s Third Brigade in Cali with the city’s criminal gangs.
The detainees, who are supposedly responsible for the disappearance of around 400 weapons held in an evidence room of the army’s Third Brigade in Cali over the past four years, are two active and one retired non-commissioned officers, and one civilian.
“Among those arrested is a sergeant first class and a first corporal, who were working as the guards for the evidence room,” stated the commander of the army’s Third Brigade, General Luis Fernando Rojas.
According to the authorities, the men were part of Cali’s so-called “arms carousel,” smuggling out firearms that were being held as evidence to later sell them off to criminal organizations involved in contract killings within the Cauca Valley State capital.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/military-officers-arrested-trading-stolen-arms/
