Influencer Daneidy Barrera Rojas, known as Epa Colombia, was sentenced to five years of prison time after filming herself vandalizing public property during a protest.

In November 2019, Almost all of Colombia had violent protests against the government of former president Iván Duque. During this time, a well-known and popular influencer Daneidy Barrera Rojas posted a video of herself vandalizing a public transportation station in Bogota, smashing windows, card readers, and access registers with a hammer, and painting the walls with spray paint. The video quickly went viral, getting her tons of attention online not knowing of the consequences that were going to follow. Little did she know that it was going to become the topic of an investigation that culminated in an initial prison sentence of three and a half years for property damage and disruption of public transportation.

A little too late Epa Colombia later apologized for her actions, but that didn’t help much, as the Prosecutor’s Office appealed the sentence and secured a 5-year prison sentence and a fine equivalent to 493 monthly minimum wages.