Overview
- Police say two men fired at a construction site on Avenida Marañón and escaped in a mototaxi before officers used security camera footage to track suspects and carry out arrests on Thursday.
- Authorities detained four people near Jirón Ezeta in the El Bosque sector, identified as Jordan Salas Escobar (21), Miguel Nicolás Carrasco Mamani (33), Sheyla Sonia Salas Escobar (29) and a 16-year-old adolescent.
- Officers seized a Baby Browning pistol with two rounds, a homemade firearm with four 12-gauge cartridges, multiple cellphones, a tablet and packages the police say may contain marijuana.
- A mototaxi driver detained in the operation confessed to receiving messages from an alleged leader known as 'Criter' or 'Criker', whom investigators say may be directing the group from abroad.
- Police have opened diligences to determine each detainee’s role and possible charges including aggravated extortion, illicit drug trafficking, illegal weapons possession and criminal gang membership while probing the wider pattern of extortion targeting construction projects in Lima.