Overview

• The INPE, in Communiqué No. 56-2025, reported the detention of five officers on suspicion of facilitating the escape and referred them to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office.
• The fugitive, Krisman Félix Nizama Ponce, 31, convicted of extortion, slipped through a hole at the medical ward door during psychiatric care, then scaled the perimeter fence according to initial inquiries.
• Police and penitentiary intelligence units intensified the search with checkpoints at city exits and nearby roads while coordinating with regional stations.
• The INPE removed the Piura prison’s director and deputy director and deployed its Office of Internal Affairs to determine administrative responsibility.
• The Justice Ministry is assessing a supervisory command for northern prisons, reflecting longstanding security and corruption deficiencies reported at the Piura facility.