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This Friday, the Colombian Attorney General’s Office reported on the capture of two fugitives from the US Justice, who were left in the hands of the Colombian authorities while waiting for the procedures for their extradition to be carried out in isolated incidents.

In Bogotá, Guillermo Alejandro Castillo Aguilar, a Colombian citizen who is wanted by a court in Harris County, in the state of Texas, for a homicide, was arrested.

While in Barranquilla, in the north of the country, the American Patrick Dale Liljebeck was arrested, convicted of charges related to drug trafficking by an Arkansas state judge, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

In the case of Castillo, who served in the United States in 1998, he is accused of the murder of a young American; The incident occurred at a colleague’s house while they were at a social gathering that ended in a fight in which he allegedly beat the victim to death.

After being captured for the murder of the young woman and posting a $20,000 bail, Castillo fled the United States and did not respond to court calls.

On the other hand, it was learned that the American Patrick Dale Liljebeck received the benefit of probation, but days later he would have left the United States with false documents, added the Prosecutor’s Office.

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By Scribe