Rodrigo Ormeño, alias “El Mentolato” was left in preventive detention and will be transferred from the Lebu prison to El Manzano in Concepción. Both decisions were made based on the danger that the defendant represents for society.
The justice maintained preventive detention for El Mentolato, leader of the crime of wood theft in the Province of Arauco, Bío Bío region.
His lawyer asked to lower the precautionary measure, which was rejected, due to the seriousness of the charges, and considering it a danger to society.
The Prosecutor’s Office will finalize a new formalization next month.
A month has passed since Rodrigo Ormenohe turned himself in to Justice to serve the pretrial detention imposed by the Court of Appeals of Concepción. This after being accused of stealing wood from a property belonging to Forestal Arauco, in addition to threatening workers of that company.
Despite this, his defense requested that the precautionary measure be lowered.
The argument of the lawyer Julio Briones, and which he presented before the Guarantee Court of Curanilahue, is that the evidence of the Public Ministry is only presumptions, based on the terrible reputation of his client, known in the province of Arauco by his alias “El Mentolato”.
They maintain preventive detention
However, as a counter-argument, the prosecutor Juan Yáñez insisted on the background for the robbery of the San José de Colico farm, but emphasizing in the defendant’s record, that it aggravates his procedural situation, with practically no possibility of having to serve possible sentences in freedom They will be prosecuted.
Among his records, the prosecutor pointed out robbery with violence and drug trafficking.
The Presidential Delegation is complainant in the investigation, which through the lawyer Felipe Guerrero strong>, recalled that the Court of Appeals, when revoking the arraigo and the signature last month, classified Ormeño as a danger to the security of society.
They will transfer to “ Mentholate” to the El Manzano prison in Concepción
And precisely, considering the formalization for robbery with violence scheduled for December 19 -due to the robbery at the Chilcoco property-, in addition to all the background information provided by the Prosecutor’s Office and the complainants, Judge Natalia Sandoval rejected the change of precautionary measure and maintained the preventive detention of Mentholate.
The Gendarmerie lawyer also intervened at the hearing, Gloria Latorre, who requested authorization to carry out the transfer of Rodrigo Ormeño from the Lebu prison to the El Manzano prison, considering the low security measures in the first compound and the high criminal commitment or danger of Mentolato , petition accepted by the court.