COMore than a year after the brutal murder of María del Pilar Zea Cobo at an exclusive mall in Medellín, Panamanian authorities have arrested Andrés Felipe Arias, known as 'Chino Arias,' who is suspected of being responsible for her death. The victim was Zea Cobo’s husband’s sister-in-law and the mother-in-law of singer Pipe Calderón. She was killed during a meeting at the Mall del Este, where she arrived in her car with her boyfriend, Jhon Fredy Toro Hincapié. After Toro returned to the vehicle, Zea Cobo was found shot in the head, and Arias had disappeared. The arrest took place in Panama on July 28, 2026, through a joint operation by Colombia’s National Police and Interpol. Investigations began immediately after the murder. Zea Cobo was also under investigation in the United States for alleged ties to an international drug trafficking network and had become an informant for the DEA.
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