'FARC member' arrested in defused Bogota car bomb case

Colombian authorities arrested a man allegedly responsible for a car bomb that was defused May 15 in front of Bogota's police headquarters. His name is Ruben Dario Hoyos Rengifo, alias "Ruben" or alias "El Mocho,"  suspected of being a member of the FARC's 17th Front. 

The police suspect that he was coordinating this failed bomb and  other terrorist attacks including the October bombing of a dental clinic in Bogota that killed 2 explosives technicians from the city's police force.

Police arrested another man involved in the plot May 16. Jesus Antonio Monroy Alvarez is suspected of parking the car as a decoy for the terrorist attack that was carried out hours later in Bogota's financial district.  Alvarez allegedly has ties to the FARC's now-demobilized 7th Front. He pled guilty to charges of manufacturing and transporting illegal weapons and was sentenced to two years in prison.