Overview
- In Pasco’s Ticlacayán, about 32 assailants dressed as police stormed the Raíces de Ñausacocha camp, stole roughly 25 tons of gold-bearing ore and wounded five officers, according to General Eloy Lara.
- DIRANDRO deployed to the Pasco–Huánuco border freed six officers and an engineer who were kidnapped during the confrontation, and detained suspect Josué Montesinos Verde.
- Subofficer Abel Atayauri Chávez remains hospitalized in Huánuco with a projectile in his chest as relatives demand an urgent transfer to Lima for surgery.
- In Lambayeque, police foiled a Caja Piura robbery triggered by a silent alarm; Julio Alejandro Antón died of a self-inflicted gunshot, Wilson Martínez Compa was arrested, and prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation.
- Following gunfire on a Chorrillos bus, a Plan Cerco yielded six Colombian detainees tied to “Gota a Gota,” with motorcycles, records and a replica firearm seized, as separate daylight robberies and shootings were reported in Piura, Talara and Arequipa.