Overview
- Two men on a motorcycle intercepted an Etecsa combi on the Villa El Salvador–Surquillo route, fired at the vehicle, and tossed in a bag with a threatening note and four shell casings; the driver and his brother were unharmed and cameras are being reviewed.
- A live grenade was placed inside a Translicsa bus in San Martín de Porres and neutralized by the National Police explosives unit, prompting workers to suspend operations after reporting extortion threats since December 24 allegedly from a group called Seguridad del Sur.
- In Santa Fe’s Loyola Sur, investigators link a noon street attack that killed pregnant teenager Juliana Ojeda and 20-year-old Isaías Uriel Álvarez to the earlier homicide of Matías Fernández, with a provisional toll of three dead and two wounded and a large police deployment.
- In Juliaca, a patron expelled from a nightclub returned with a firearm, killing security guard Miguel Ángel Humpire Muchica and gravely injuring David Junior Apaza Choque, as Areincri and prosecutors pursue the suspect using local video evidence.
- Argentina’s Federal Police detained City officer Gastón Miño in the Villa Lugano case involving the death of Juan Gabriel González, with the agent lodged in the Homicide Division and internal disciplinary proceedings underway.