Overview
- The Sunday attack in Trujillo on August 30 left four people dead and businessman Jenss Marty Lara kidnapped, with newly released video showing attackers in police‑style uniforms stopping the victims’ vehicle and shooting passengers.
- Peruvian police say more than a dozen people have been detained in the Trujillo case, investigators have seized weapons, vehicles and safe houses, and alleged gang leader Jhonsson Smit Cruz Torres, “Jhonsson Pulpo,” was placed in 15 days of preliminary detention at the Dircote.
- Mexican federal forces captured Govén Ulisses “El Amarillo” on Thursday in Lomas de Angelópolis, Puebla, and officials reported seizing firearms, drugs and luxury vehicles while arresting two escorts and carrying out simultaneous searches.
- Federal prosecutors in Mexico have assumed the probe into the September 4 killing of federal deputy Zenyazen Escobar and President Claudia Sheinbaum has asked the FGR to report advances in the investigation.
- Security officials say criminal groups are using police uniforms, cloned license plates and large explosives — including about 200 kilograms in an Ojocaliente car‑bomb attack that left multiple wounded — and investigators are relying on video, communications intercepts and coordinated raids to build cases and seek prosecutions.