A bad name that caused its owner to be imprisoned three times
A Colombian man has been imprisoned three times in the last 13 years because he has the same name as a wanted drug lord.
The 46-year-old Rene Martinez Gutierrez is a peaceful family man with no criminal record to his name.
But the problem is that he has the same name as a Peruvian drug lord with multiple national and international arrest warrants, which is why he has been arrested three times in the past 13 years.
The last time he was arrested was earlier in January when the man returned to his native Colombia to see his ailing father.
He was arrested as soon as his plane touched down in Bogota and has been in jail ever since… The first time Gutierrez faced legal problems because of his name was in 2010 when he went to the local police station in Bogota, Colombia to request a judicial record to open his own company When his records were checked, the police found that René Martínez Gutierrez had an international arrest warrant issued by Peru, so he was unjustly detained for eight days. He was released. The Peruvian embassy, the Supreme Court of Justice, and even Interpol had no real explanation for what happened.
They all claimed that his arrest was due to a coincidence, as only a year after his first arrest, Rene Martinez Gutierrez was called back to the Bogota police station as a witness, after his workplace was robbed.
He was only supposed to make a statement about what had happened, but when the police checked his name in the database, they again mistook him for a wanted Peruvian drug lord.
This time, he spent two months with the hardened criminals in Colombia's notorious La Picota prison until the Peruvian authorities finally confirmed that he was not the man they were looking for.
After this incident, Gutierrez decided that the best way to avoid going to prison in the future was to immigrate to the United States, so he and his family moved there in 2012. It seemed that his troubles with the law were behind him, but in early 2023, Rene learned that his father The elder was not feeling well at all, so he decided to travel home to see him, fully aware of the risks he was taking.
Unfortunately, the 46-year-old's worst fears materialized once his plane landed in Bogota.
Interpol agents boarded the plane immediately after it came to a stop on the tarmac, asked for his identification, and after confirming his name, escorted him away.
He was eventually taken to Los Martires Police Station, where he has been held ever since.
Unfortunately, Rene Martínez Gutierrez's father died during his detention, so he did not say goodbye, and once again, he and his family are waiting for the Peruvian authorities to draft the extradition request and to confirm once again that he is not the wanted man.
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