Overview
- Trujillo authorities probed a dynamite blast at a La Rinconada home that shattered a wooden garage door and damaged at least 17 nearby properties, with UDEX and criminalistics teams processing the scene.
- Separately in Trujillo, a 21-year-old accused of extortion was ordered to pretrial detention after being arrested while allegedly collecting a payoff, with police reporting he carried two dynamite cartridges and an extortion sticker.
- Peru’s Interior Ministry confirmed the capture in Buenos Aires of Deivi Junior Romero Ullilen, alias “El Jorobado Deivi,” wanted for narcotrafficking, extortion and organized crime, and now awaiting extradition to Peru.
- Argentine federal investigators detained four suspects in seven raids across Mar del Plata, Santa Clara del Mar and Buenos Aires, seizing nine firearms and large quantities of ammunition in a probe that identified a migrant‑smuggling network after failing to confirm alleged Al‑Qaeda links.
- In Palma’s Son Gotleu neighborhood, a joint sweep by national and local police resulted in three arrests, the identification of more than 70 people, 13 drug-possession reports, and the seizure of heroin and cocaine alongside numerous administrative sanctions.