Overview
- Two Venezuelan suspects were detained in Villa El Salvador over the killing of Eduardo Javier Espinoza Castillo, with one stopped while fleeing in a red car and the other hospitalized after the shootout.
- Police recovered a firearm from the fleeing vehicle that may belong to the victim, and investigators are testing whether he was shot with his own gun in a suspected “gota a gota” extortion dispute.
- In the Rímac, a municipal road worker identified as Fidel Ernesto Taipe Rojas survived gunshots during a worksite attack, and officers later captured the alleged shooter and two accomplices after an apparent confession.
- During the Rímac arrests, authorities seized a grenade, explosive materials, drugs, phones, clothing tied to the assault and records allegedly tied to extortion targeting worksites.
- Separate operations detained four alleged members of ‘Los Malévolos del Cono Este’ in Ate with a gun, drugs, a dynamite cartridge and extortion letters, and two alleged ‘Los Cuervos del Mal’ in VMT with two reportedly stolen motorcycles, ammunition and drugs.