Overview
- Police and prosecutors reported large pyrotechnic seizures in multiple regions, including S/70,000 in Trujillo’s Tacora, 150 kilos in Piura’s market complex, and about 400 kilos in Puno, with Grupo Terna actions in Loreto netting 75,285 devices and cocaine packages.
- Two major overnight fires struck Lima districts on Christmas, consuming a technopor/plastics facility in San Juan de Lurigancho and a recycling-stacked garage in San Martín de Porres, with preliminary accounts pointing to possible fireworks involvement and no reported casualties.
- Lima registered lethal attacks over Christmas Eve and Day, including the murder of a barber in Rímac and a separate stabbing of a mototaxista there, as well as the shooting death of transport businessman Robert Obregón Quesada in San Martín de Porres.
- A 22-year-old employee, Melany Lino, remains in critical condition after a Molotov attack on a real-estate office in Chicama, with police examining a potential land-dispute motive.
- Investigations advanced on several fronts: a PNP suboficial died from a gunshot in Trujillo with colleague Gerson Benites detained, two Venezuelan suspects tied to an extortion group were arrested in SMP, and in Sonora seven of 25 sought over the Hermosillo Waldo’s fire were detained as all 68 state stores were temporarily closed.