According to the Subdirectorate of Criminal Investigation of the National Civil Police (PNC), two motorcycles were identified in which the alleged perpetrators were mobilized for having caused the death of Ingrid Amanda Morente, captain of the army and escort of vice president Karin Herrera Catalán, on January 21.
Byron André by Jesús Morales Zúñiga, 22, aka Colocho, is one of the four coordinators of the Los Motoladrones band and, according to the investigations, he was on a motorcycle a few meters from the armed attack in which the captain died.
They added that, moments before the shooting, he tried to strip his belongings to the pilot of an agricultural truck, along with his accomplices: Edwin Alberto Castro Camas, 21, aka Beto, and Marco Orlando Ortíz López, alias Play.
Castro Camas and Ortíz López went aboard another motorcycle and, when they tried to flee along with Morales Zúñiga, the army captain joined the Roosevelt road.
After the attempt to assault, the suspects tried to escape and, unable to evade the small vehicle in which Catalan Morente, one of them – dressed with a blue sweater – shot to the driver’s side.
“The thieves began to Shoot in Ingrid Amanda Morente Catalán; They possibly thought they wanted to intercept them, ”they detailed.
The PNC reported that the shooter was identified as Edwin Alberto Castro Camas, indicated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Murder Crimes, attempt assassination, illegal association, conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery, aggravated robbery and aggravated robbery in a tentative degree.
While the motorcycle pilot was Marco Orlando Ortíz López, another of the coordinators, indicated of the crimes of murder, conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery, aggravated robbery, aggravated robbery in a tentative degree, murder in the degree of attempt and illegal association.
The accomplice byron André by Jesús Morales Zúñiga was captured by the crimes of murder in the degree of attempt, illegal association, aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.
Other attacks linked to the structure the motoladrones
That armed attack was the beginning of an investigation against the criminal structure, according to the investigators, and on March 26 the Public Ministry and the PNC captured 10 people who allegedly dedicate themselves to stealing and killing people in the department of Guatemala.
According to María José Mansilla, spokeswoman of the MP, that criminal structure is attributed At least three robberiesin two of which shot at the drivers of the vehicles.
The first event was against the Army captain at 4:28 p.m. on January 21. A month later, they assaulted and shot at another woman on the Tzul Atanasio road.
“A second event occurred on February 21, at approximately 7 am, in which members of this criminal structure would have tried to violate a woman; they shot him and attempted against his life,” Mansilla said.
In addition, the Prosecutor’s Office identified a third event that occurred on March 7, when the alleged criminals stole a motorcycle to a man at kilometer 33 of the track of the route to Palín, Escuintla, around 15 hours.
HOW TO OPERATE THE STRUCTURE
Jonathan Orozco, fiscal agent of the Public Ministry, said the investigation managed to determine that this band operated with at least 12 members, who had specific functions, including coordinators, hitmen – also called squares – and collaborators.
Indicated that the members of the group They moved in at least three motorcyclesthose who previously altered plate numbers or hid them with black adhesive tape, to avoid being identified.
The prosecutor explained that it was established that this criminal structure focused its operations in Mixco, although it also acted in other areas of Guatemala City.
Areas where they assaulted
The MP indicated that the places where these criminals operated were mixco and the capital, specifically in the peripheral, the Roosevelt, Doroteo Guamuch Calzada, San Juan Calzada, Boulevard Los Próceres, Petapa Avenue and Calzada Atanasio Tzul, among others.
It was also determined that, before the robberies, the members used to meet in businesses such as workshops, where they agreed to operate that day.
In those places they changed costumes and, according to the MP, after committing the assaults, they changed clothes again to avoid being located.
Schedules in which they assaulted
The Public Ministry’s investigation determined that the band’s criminal operations began from 3.00.
Through the work of the Specialized Division in Criminal Investigation of the Department of Femicides of the PNC, it was established that the robberies were committed at hours of greater vehicular load, both in the early morning and the morning and in the afternoon.