Overview
- Officers arrested Andrés Jhonatan Villa Ávalos, Vanesa Rodríguez Rodríguez and Kimberly Lisseth Villa Rodríguez during a 6:30 a.m. operation in Alto Trujillo.
- Searches of two properties yielded multiple mobile phones, eight SIM cards, microSD memory cards, a bank card and notebooks with alleged extortion records.
- Police also searched the leader’s cell at El Milagro prison and reported finding a notebook with phone numbers and names tied to new threats.
- The 1st Preparatory Investigation Court at the CISAJ El Porvenir authorized the preliminary detention order following the Depincri Este and Divincri operation.
- Investigators are pursuing additional victims and examining whether the network involved relatives of the incarcerated suspect, including a reported S/15,000 demand with death threats to a businessman.