Overview
- Depincri Este officers detained Andrés Jhonatan Villa Ávalos, Vanesa Rodríguez Rodríguez and Kimberly Lisseth Villa Rodríguez in Alto Trujillo as alleged operators who made calls, gathered victim data and managed devices used for threats.
- Police say the scheme was directed by inmate Pedro Dennis Zavaleta Ávalos, known for imitating cartoon voices to mask his identity when intimidating targets.
- Searches of two properties and Zavaleta Ávalos’s cell at El Milagro yielded cellphones, SIM chips, memory cards, notebooks and a bank card, including a notebook with numbers tying him to new threats.
- The 1° Juzgado de Investigación Preparatoria — Sede CISAJ El Porvenir authorized a seven-day preliminary detention for the three detainees.
- Investigators are tracking additional victims and assessing indications that relatives of the inmate may be part of the network.