Overview
- PNP traced victims’ phones to Las Malvinas using GPS and coordinated a rapid intervention with units from Surco, Breña, and Cercado de Lima.
- Two suspects, Adán Galecio Rosas and his mother, Lucy Alvarado Rosas, were detained on suspicion of receiving stolen devices.
- Officers found the complainant’s iPhone valued at S/4,000 being handled inside the stand and recovered additional handsets.
- Police reported multiple phones seized and returned to owners, with one outlet reporting a total of 15 devices recovered.
- A separate report from Jujuy, Argentina, described a GPS-led chase that ended in a beating of a suspect before police intervention, underscoring public-safety risks.