BOGOTA: Colombian police have captured a fugitive accused of planning last month’s gun attack on Senator Miguel Uribe, a potential presidential candidate, the head of the country’s national police said on Saturday, marking the fifth arrest in the case.

Elder Jose Arteaga, known as El Costeno, was arrested on suspicion of organising and coordinating the politician’s shooting at a rally in Colombia’s capital Bogota on June 7 to commit the crime, police said. This includes handing over the gun used in the attack to the 15-year-old charged with shooting Uribe, the police added. “We are going after the intellectual authors of this act,” National Police Director Carlos Fernando Triana told a press conference,” adding that Arteaga had a criminal history going back more than 20 years.

Published in Dawn, July 6th, 2025