Overview

• Police detained Elder José Arteaga Hernández, alias “Chipi” or “Costeño,” in northwest Bogota on July 5 under an Interpol red notice.
• He faces charges of attempted aggravated homicide, manufacturing and trafficking firearms and using minors to stage the June 7 assassination attempt.
• His arrest marks the fifth made in connection with the attack on Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay at a Fontibón district rally.
• Uribe Turbay remains in intensive care at Bogotá’s Santa Fe Clinic after undergoing multiple surgeries for head and leg wounds.
• Investigators are probing the motive behind the attack and the wider criminal network that supplied weapons and exploited youth.