The dawn of this Friday the Dijin captured and transferred to Bogotá to Aida Manzaneda Merlano, who will answer for the crime of favoring the escape of prisoners.
The judicial authorities continue to scrutinize the escape plan of the former Barranquilla congresswoman Aida Merlano Rebolledo who left more than one watching a spark.
The tentacles of the fact, which cost the post to the director of the Inpec, General William Ruiz and the director of the El Buen Pastor prison in Bogotá, Diana Muñoz, now reached his family.
At 11 o'clock last night, units of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol, Dijín, and of the Criminal Investigation Section, Sijin, arrived at a building located in the 59B race with 79th Street, in front of El Golf Park, in the north of Barranquilla to capture Aida Victoria Merlano Manzaneda, daughter of the fugitive former congressman.
The court order was issued by the 153 municipal criminal court of the city of Bogotá for the crime of favoring the escape of prisoners in a heterogeneous contest with the use of minors, because of their 17-year-old brother, who, like the young Merlano Manzaneda, were present at the dental office at the time of the escape.
Aida Victoria Merlano Manzaneda was surprised by the authorities when she arrived at her residence aboard a black van. In a video obtained by this means, it is evident that four agents of the institution surround her to notify her about the capture order and her rights that she has in her condition.
The 20-year-old woman, who wears a printed dress, listens calmly to the authorities and was subsequently transferred to the premises of the Immediate Reaction Unit, URI, of the Prosecutor's Office where she arrived at about 1 a.m. Once there, it was reviewed and subsequently located in one of the dungeons where he spent the night.
Change of clothes
In the early hours of yesterday morning, at 5:13 am, to be precise, the captured, who already wore a more casual dress, sweater, jeans and tennis, was embarked by car accompanied by a police caravan with Heading to the cargo airport, where a support plane of the institution was waiting for her, with a PNC 0237 license plate with the aim of transferring her to the capital of the Republic where it is required.
The aircraft on which Aida Victoria boarded departed from Barranquilla at 7:50 in the morning and set foot in Bogota at 9:55, where another convoy was waiting for her, at the Catam airport, to take her to the Sijin facilities.
Around 6 pm yesterday, the woman was taken to the Paloquemao Judicial Complex to be prosecuted for the events that occurred during the escape of the former Barranquilla congressman. Until the closing of this edition the decisions taken of the diligence were unknown.
"I didn't know about the escape"
Once the news of the capture of Aida Victoria Merlano was known, the lawyer who represents her interests, Vladimir Cuadro, released a video to public opinion with appreciations from her client.
“After the professional contact with the young woman she tells me that she wants to go to justice and give all the explanations of what she knows about the episode of the mother's escape, we never received a formal response citing her to any diligence and only about 5:00 am today (yesterday) I find out about the capture, ”explained the lawyer of the Merlano family.
She added that during the professional talk she had with Aida Merlano Manzaneda she recognized that she was in the dental office from which her mother ran away, on the day of the events, and minutes before the evasion occurred she saw her, spoke with her and hugged her , as seen in the video of the security camera.
“But he told me that he was unaware of the escape, that he did not know of any plan and that he had no participation in the escape, nor the plan for its execution and also told me that he disapproved of his mother's decision, after the escape he manifests to me that he does not agree with the decision to escape that the mother took, ”said the lawyer.
The lawyer Vladimir Cuadro, in compliance with the commitments made with the young Merlano Manzaneda, also traveled to Bogotá to take charge of the situation and learn firsthand what are the evidence he has against his client.
“There are no more capture orders”
Meanwhile, Brigadier Ricardo Alarcón, commander of the Barranquilla Police said that the institution in the city has not received more arrest warrants in the case of Aida Merlano, except for the one made on the daughter of a former fugitive congressman.
"The only capture order we have received here in the Barranquilla metropolitan police is the one that corresponds to this lady's daughter (Aida Merlano)," said the commander at a press conference from the cargo airport minutes after the execution of the transfer from Merlano Manzaneda to Bogotá.
The high uniformed said that the operations are maintained in the city, especially everything that has to do with the judicial police and all the activities that will surely “allow the capture”