Overview
- Peru’s Judiciary ordered 28 months of preventive detention for Adam Smith Lucano Cotrina, alias ‘El Jorobado’, in a case that identifies him as the alleged leader of ‘Los Sanguinarios de la Construcción’.
- Police say preliminary findings tie ‘El Jorobado’ to more than 25 homicides as prosecutors pursue investigations into extortion, land usurpation and control of construction works.
- Specialized PNP units captured three suspects from ‘Los Injertos del Rímac’ after the shooting of a municipal construction worker, seizing a grenade, explosives, drugs and ledgers believed to list extortion targets.
- In Villa El Salvador, a 20-year-old Venezuelan linked by police to ‘gota a gota’ extortion was killed; two compatriots were detained and investigators are examining whether he was shot with his own firearm.
- In separate operations, officers arrested four Venezuelans in Ate tied to an extortion cell and two members of ‘Los Cuervos del Mal’ in VMT, recovering a gun, drugs, a dynamite cartridge, stolen motorcycles and extortion letters.