On Saturday, December 13, the rescue of three people by the Medellín Metropolitan Police was announced in an apartment in the El Poblado sector, after being kidnapped for about three days for extortion purposes.
The victims, all from Cali, came to the city to complete a real estate deal and shortly after their arrival They were deceived and taken against their will to the property where they were being held.
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According to the National Police, the operation was launched after a relative of the victims, who lives in the capital Valle del Cauca, reported the case after receiving a call demanding the sale of properties and the payment of a sum of almost $1.7 billion to ensure the release of the detainees.
“The timely complaint from a relative of the victim in the city of Cali allowed us, together with our Gaula, to immediately launch an anti-kidnapping plan that brought together intelligence and judicial police capabilities, and based on this information, verification activities were developed,” said General William Castaño, Commander of the Metropolitan Police of the Aburrá Valley.
The measures included intelligence work, criminal investigation and technical analysis Locate exactly the location where the kidnapped people were.
In this regard, Manuel Villa Mejía, Minister of Security of Medellín, pointed out that “the analysis of the cameras of the Security Secretariat and the Medellín District allowed the identification of the person who led the victims to the vehicle used for their capture,” facilitating the progress of the search and immediate localization.
The controlled anti-kidnapping plan allowed safe access to the apartment and rescuing victims without physical injury.
During the operation, two men, aged 29 and 41, were caught red-handed for their suspected involvement in the kidnapping, and a weapon and three mobile phones were also confiscated and made available to the relevant authorities.
The Guarantee Control judge issued a security measure for those arrested in the prison center The investigation continues to identify possible additional perpetrators.
Villa Mejía stressed that in Medellín “the entire institutional framework does not hesitate to act articulately against the phenomenon of kidnapping and extortion” and emphasized the commitment of the local authorities to prevent criminal groups from turning the city into a scene of threats and illegal detentions.
And he concluded: “No criminal group will turn our city into a theater of threats, deception and illegal detention. We will continue to strengthen all the necessary capacities so that the authorities have the investigative tools and all the interagency coordination to ensure an immediate, decisive and effective response in every case.”
The kidnapping and murder of the merchant Ángela María Chisacá in Girardot (Cundinamarca) was solved after a long search process that began on July 12, 2023.
That day, 38-year-old Chisacá had to leave her home and get into her own vehicle. According to a cousin of the victim in statements about this caracol news, A security guard was the last person to see her. Hours after the kidnapping, the vehicle was found burned in a rural area of Flanders (Tolima).
Police investigations progressed following the arrest of three suspected suspects. One of them, alias El Gordo, provided information that allowed authorities to locate his remains on July 3, 2025, in the village of La Island, in the judicial district of Rovira (Tolima).
As Colonel Arley Herrera, Commander of the Cundinamarca Police, explained: Analysis of more than 500 hours of videos was the key to the discovery.
The National Police confirmed that the crime was extortion and that those arrested, currently five people, face charges of kidnapping for ransom, enforced disappearance and arson. Herrera pointed out that “the ringleader, alias El Gordo, instructed the kidnapper to pose as a FARC dissident and demand the sum of $500 million.”
On December 11, Chisacá’s remains were identified and returned to his loved ones in Bogotá, including his two daughters.
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