Overview
- Authorities in Salta consolidated the drug haul to 364 kilograms after excavations at the San Felipe crash site, detaining a local suspect and two Bolivian pilots located at the Rosario de la Frontera terminal.
- The retired Argentine Federal Police officer who shot and killed an alleged motorcycle robber in Buenos Aires’ Núñez neighborhood remains detained under National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 39 as investigators assess the shooting.
- In Lurigancho–Chosica near Lima, a minivan driver was fatally shot by two motorcycle riders in Ñaña, with Depincri Chosica leading the homicide investigation and reviewing security footage.
- Police operations in Lima’s San Juan de Lurigancho captured two suspected members of the ‘La Nueva Generación’ extortion ring, seizing firearms, ammunition and phones with threatening messages.
- Security forces in Culiacán detained a minor carrying loaded magazines after an attack that left one woman dead and another injured, turning the suspect and seized items over to the state prosecutor’s office.