Colombian nationals sentenced to prison for plot to murder American soldiers
Two Colombian nationals will serve lengthy prison sentences for conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. soldiers by detonating a car bomb outside a military base near the Colombia-Venezuela border, the Justice Department announced Thursday.Colombian nationals Andrés Fernando Medina Rodriguez, 40, and Ciro Alfonso Gutiérrez Ballesteros, 31, were sentenced to 35 and 30 years in prison, respectively, for their involvement in the 2021 attempted attack. According to court documents, Rodriguez and Ballesteros and members of the 33rd Front, an extremist faction of […]