Overview
- Justice Minister Walter Martínez Laura oversaw a nighttime search focused on Pavilion 4 at the Lurigancho facility.
- More than 300 Special Operations (GOES) agents with canine teams inspected the cells of over 650 inmates.
- Authorities confiscated televisions, sound equipment, fans, DVD players, billiard tables, power strips, cellphones, and notebooks listing phone numbers.
- Officials framed the action as reinforcing the principle of authority and disrupting prohibited communications run from inside prisons.
- Leaders identified in the sweep will be segregated and transferred to maximum-security prisons including Ancón I, Challapalca, and Cochamarca, with Lurigancho’s 10,000-plus population flagged for tighter oversight.