Overview
- Police captured Maykel Joel Rodríguez Pinto in Bellavista, Callao, after surveillance of his movements while he posed as a taxi driver.
- Officers seized a revolver with four rounds, two phones, bank cards, a chip holder, transport-company credentials and a vehicle, along with a phone containing threat audios and transfer records.
- Authorities report he received payments from transport companies via Yape and other wallets, with vouchers and recordings tying him to the collections.
- Rodríguez Pinto remains at the Dirincri as the Fiscalía evaluates a request for 15 days of preventive detention.
- The arrest follows a Sept. 9 mega-operation that detained 24 suspects, searched 32 properties and froze about 50 accounts holding roughly 20 million soles, with police warning similar groups are still active.