Overview
- Police detained Yessenia Emperatriz Ureta Vargas known as 'China Yessenia' and her husband Juan Carlos Ayllón 'Pimpollo' this weekend as suspects in an extortion scheme linked to an explosive attack and a later fire that killed ten people in La Victoria.
- Investigators say intermediaries hired a man to leave an extortion message and plant an explosive at a restaurant, and that evidence tying those intermediaries to 'China Yessenia' and 'Pimpollo' comes from witness testimony collected during the fiscal probe.
- Separately, Sebastián Esteban Peña Vilca 'Diablo' and Edson Joaquín Ramírez Aponte 'JJ' were arrested after police say 'Diablo' confessed to shooting event promoter Gloria Roxana Félix Carbajal for S/2,000 and named alleged coordinators called 'Daniel' and 'Boris'.
- Relatives of the La Victoria victims and of the Chincha victim report repeated armed intimidation and say prior threats and extortion complaints went insufficiently protected, fueling demands for stronger witness safety and fuller accountability.
- Prosecutors and Dirincri investigators are carrying out ballistics, financial and digital-transfer forensics to link hired perpetrators to intermediaries and to locate other suspected organizers including a woman named Olivia Aponte Peralta and the men identified as 'Daniel' and 'Boris'.