Arrest ordered for rebel accused of killing Hawaii woman and 2 other Americans
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BOGOTA, Colombia >> A judge has revoked the acquittal of a leftist guerrilla accused in the killings of three Americans, including a woman from Hawaii, in Colombia in 1999 and ordered his arrest, the Attorney General’s Office said today.
Angelo Caceres, alias “El Piloso,” was accused as a co-author in the three deaths in 2006 but a court absolved him of the crime in December 2008.
The Attorney General’s Office said that prosecutors appealed the acquittal and that a court in Arauca province has revoked it and ordered the arrest of Caceres. Prosecutors said Caceres’ whereabouts were not known.
The case involved the slaying of Terence Freitas, 24, of Los Angeles; Ingrid Washinawatok, 41, of New York; and Lahe’ena’e Gay, 39, of Pahoa, Hawaii, who were in Colombia to help set up a school system for the U’wa Indian tribe.
Their bodies were found in a Venezuelan pasture just across the Colombian border on March 5, 1999, one week after they were kidnapped.
Leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia later said the guerrillas involved thought the Americans were spies.
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Two other FARC rebels have been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the killings.
