Judge confirms three-months in pre-trial prison to trio suspected of threatening President Alvarado

Published Thursday, August 1, 2019

The office said the specific charges were mutiny and threats against President Alvarado.
/ A.M. Costa Rica wire services photo.

Judge confirms three-months in pre-trial prison to trio suspected of threatened President Alvarado

By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

According to the Public Ministry, a judge of the First Judicial Circuit confirmed the order of three months of pre-trial detention against three suspects of riot crime and possible threats against President Carlos Alvarado.

According to prosecutors, the three men are surnamed Sequeira-Mendiola, 60, Fernández-Ramírez, 34, and Masís-Artavia, 54.

As A.M. Costa Rica reported on July 15, the suspects faced a judge in San Carlos* in the northern zone of the country. They were accused of producing and distributing a video on social networks calling for citizens to protest and take up arms against the president.

The Prosecutor's office of Narcotrafficking and Related Offenses said the trio styled themselves as members of the Frente Patriota 7 de Julio, which translates into the Patriotic Front of July 7. That is the date the video appeared.

The office said that the specific charges were mutiny and threats against Alvarado.

According to the prosecutor's report, the two men Sequeira-Mendiola and Fernández-Ramírez were arrested July 12 in San Carlos in the northern zone.

Masís-Artavia was arrested the next day in a farm in the sector of Río Cuarto* in Alajuela. He is suspect of complicity with the alleged revolutionary group, prosecutors said.

The Judicial Investigation Organization agents said the video made by the group was published on social networks July 7, and it urged the Costa Rican people to stage a coup against the president.

The video showed at least 15 masked people individuals, the judicial agency said. It can be seen on a Facebook link here*.

One of the first two men detained, Sequeira-Mendiola, has a criminal record for fraud, the judicial report said, adding that he was convicted but had not yet been jailed to serve a sentence. There was a warrant for his arrest, judicial agents said.

Masís-Artavia is a former police officer with a large criminal record, judicial agents reported. He is suspect of having filmed the video. His detention was made inside a property where he was accompanied by a woman with the last name of Gamboa-Freer. The woman is a cousin of the former magistrate Celso Gamboa-Sánchez. The woman was not arrested.

In March, the former magistrate went to the Public Ministry to start a case against Maria Faria, the current Venezuelan ambassador. This action identified Gamboa-Sánchez as representing the government of Nicolas Maduro, who is disputing power with the acting president, Juan Guaidó Márquez, the president of the country's national assembly, which opposed Maduro.

The events in which Gamboa-Sánchez accuses Farias go back to Feb, 20, when Farias, a Guiadó supporter, and her collaborators entered the embassy building before the date established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica.

"In relation to the events that took place on Feb. 20, at the Consulate of Venezuela, the Office of the First Judicial Circuit of San José confirmed that this morning was received a complaint to investigate the presumed usurpation in that embassy. The case was assigned file 19-000185-0619-PE and is in the initial stage of the investigation, " said the Ministry in its statement.

Neither of the judicial agents nor the Prosecutor's Office linked former magistrate Gamboa -Sánchez or his cousin Gamboa- Freer, with the group of revolutionaries or the three men captured.

In addition to the arrests of the three suspects, the agents searched the house of Masís-Artavia where, in addition to arresting him, agents seized documents and cell phones related to the investigation," said the judicial agents on its statement.

Agents from the Judicial Investigating Organization, agents from the National Security Intelligence Directorate and the Special Intervention Unit participated in the arrests.

Alvarado, in speaking of the threat, said that "Costa Rica has a route to solve its problems in peace and that is the only one that we must follow."

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