Police on Tuesday arrested a suspected guerrilla member accused of extorting small businesses in the south of Colombia.
According to newspaper El Espectador, the 41-year-old Rogelio Claros Sanchez was “captured and found to have letters that were being used as a record to keep track of the payments demanded of the local business owners.”
Claros Sanchez is allegedly a member of the FARC´s 3rd Front and according to authorities, in charge of extorting local business owners in the town of Florencia.
According to El Espectador a judge sent Claros Sanchez to a jail in the city of Florencia on charges of extortion and rebellion.
