Overview
- Officers from Divpol Sur Uno, working with the police intelligence directorate, detained Hernán and Jesús González Salas this morning near the Westin on Avenida Javier Prado.
- Investigators say the pair posed as passenger fillers to force informal drivers to pay S/5 per departure and S/100 per week, coordinating threats in a WhatsApp group.
- Police seized a Smith & Wesson revolver loaded with three rounds, a live grenade, cash, mobile phones and a motorcycle, and UDEX removed the explosive from the scene.
- Authorities presented chat logs and Yape transaction records that they say document systematic collection of extortion payments.
- Police report that Hernán previously served six years in Lurigancho for aggravated robbery, and both detainees remain in custody for referral to the Ministerio Público.