The body of Ecuadorian Junior Roldán, feared former leader of the Los Choneros criminal gang, was illegally exhumed on the outskirts of Medellín, Colombia’s second city, the police reported this Wednesday.
In the morning, an employee of the Envigado cemetery He notified a priest that one of the entrances to the cemetery had been opened without permission. “When the father entered, he found that (…) the body” of Roldán had disappeared from the vault where he was buried at the beginning of May, the Metropolitan Police of the Aburrá Valley, where Envigado (a neighbor of Medellín) is located, told Afp. , northwest).
Roldán, alias JR, was a fugitive from Ecuadorian justice. In February 2023, he was released from a prison in Guayaquil – the center of operations for several drug trafficking gangs – and received the benefit of conditional freedom, in a decision criticized by the president of that country, Guillermo Lasso.
In March he was the object of an armed attack in which he was injured and the prison authorities lost track of him. Two months later, authorities of Colombia They found his body shot in the head. in a rural area in the northwest of the country.
Since no one claimed the body, it was taken to the Envigado cemetery on May 18.