Overview
- Argentina’s federal police arrested Deivi Junior Romero Ullilen, alias ‘El Jorobado Deivi’, in Buenos Aires on an Interpol red notice; the alleged Los Compadres figure linked to the January attack on La Libertad’s Public Ministry is in custody awaiting extradition to Peru.
- Trujillo authorities are investigating a suspected extortion attack after an explosive detonated at a home in La Rinconada, shattering windows in at least 17 houses as UDEX and Criminalística teams process the scene.
- Peruvian police advanced local extortion cases, with a judge ordering seven months of preventive detention for 21‑year‑old Abel Núñez Maldonado in Trujillo after seizing dynamite and threats, while three Venezuelan suspects were captured in Surco with a firearm as they allegedly sought 10,000 soles from a bakery.
- The Condevilla prosecutor’s office secured the preliminary detention of five alleged members of ‘La Hermandad del Norte’ in Lima and Callao over an August heist of a medical‑equipment truck worth about €142,000, seizing vehicles, electronics and documents.
- In a separate Argentine probe launched from a DNIC alert, four people were detained on charges of facilitating migrant entries from the Middle East, with raids yielding nine firearms, large quantities of ammunition and other evidence under Judge Santiago Inchausti’s oversight.