Colombian police captured an alleged FARC hostage caregiver, alias “La Mona,” outside a Neiva prison on Sunday while she was trying to visit an inmate in the southwestern department of Huila.
La Mona was arrested while waiting in line outside the prison where she was trying to deliver several letters to a prisoner that mention suspected guerrillas lamenting the death of the FARC’s supreme leader “Alfonso Cano,” television station Caracol TV reported Wednesday.
La Mona, whose real name is Angelica Quesada Pedraza, already had a warrant out for her arrest for the crimes of kidnapping, rebellion, conspiracy, and unlawful possession of weapons from the Colombian Armed Forces for private use.
According to police chief Colonel Julio Cesar Alvarado Diaz, La Mona was “in charge of caring for hostages, and preparing food for them as well as the other guerrilla members.”
The 26-year old guerrilla hostage nanny is believed to be a member of the FARC’s Eastern Block of the 25th Front and was noticeably pregnant at the time of her capture.