Overview
- The Poder Judicial de Lambayeque ordered nine months of preventive detention for Arnold Antonio Segura Guevara, 24.
- The Nov. 15 assault in Saltur left his mother and grandmother dead and his uncle seriously injured, according to authorities.
- Police arrested the suspect in flagrante at the family home, and investigators report a machete was used in the attack.
- He remains in Divincri Chiclayo custody pending transfer to the Chiclayo prison as prosecutors press parricide, homicide and serious-injury charges, saying they will seek a 35-year sentence.
- The victims were buried on Nov. 17, the injured uncle awaits surgery, and the defendant gave conflicting media comments about remorse and alleged drug use.