President Alan Garcia signed an accord with his Colombian and Brazilian counterparts Sunday to reinforce surveillance of the Amazon region’s rivers, to combat the illegal traffic of arms and drugs and rebel groups such as Colombia’s FARC guerrillas.
“This tri-national action in the Amazonian jungle rivers will bolster our work in this very important territory and […]

Peru anti-fraud and corruption authorities seized nearly 15 tons of fake medicine, valued at approximately 100,000 soles, or $35,000.
The operation, conducted June 11 in three different stores located on Paruro Street in Lima’s city center but made known only this week, yielded nearly 15 tons of fake and possibly lethal medicine, , Police Col. Pedro […]

Peruvian police arrested a criminal court judge late Wednesday night in Arequipa on charges he tried to coerce sexual favors from the sister of a man facing murder charges in exchange for a favorable ruling in his case.
Judge Francisco León Guerrero was suspended pending criminal proceedings,” daily El Comercio reported.
Mercedes Villarán de la Torre […]

A Spanish “businessman” who twice made Peruvian headlines by assaulting three people, taking a bite out of a policeman’s arm and smashing his Porsche into another car was expelled from the country as an undesirable, National Police chief Octavio Salazar said Thursday.
“The Spanish citizen was escorted to Peru’s border with Ecuador for illegally overstaying his […]

Four scatterbrained robbers learned the hard way that crime doesn’t pay… particularly if you make room in your getaway car by letting your victims out on the side of the road without first taking their money.
The four crooks, who have yet to be caught, car-jacked five shopkeepers from the northern coast city of Piura on […]

Three men were arrested and charged with the rape and murder of a vacationing Israeli journalist after her partially burnt passport and Hebrew books were discovered buried in the back yard of one of the suspects, Peruvian newspapers reported Tuesday.
Tamar Shahak, 23, was half-way through an extended trip across South America when she was brutally […]

Ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s once-feared intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, testified Monday that his former boss is innocent of charges he sanctioned the Colina group paramilitary death squad.
Fujimori, 69, could hardly contain a grin as his former spy chief depicted him as a “courageous” hero who defeated a bloody leftist insurgency and lifted Peru from its knees. […]

The head of Peru’s military Joint Chiefs of staff said it would be a mistake to start eradication of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in the Apurímac and Ene river valleys, VRAE, because of the social chaos it would cause among the majority of the poor inhabitants who eek out their living on […]

Ongoing trials in Peru against jailed cocaine trafficker Fernando Zevallos and his sister Lupe must come to an end before they can be extradited to Chile said anti-drug prosecutor Iván Quispe Mansilla Thursday.
It is important that Peruvian justice determine their criminal responsibility before any extradition request can be examined, Mansilla told state news agency Andina.
Fernando […]

Former President Alberto Fujimori’s lawyer, César Nakazaki, said Thursday that he has filed a 20-page appeal to the Lima Bar Association in response to its Ethics Commission resolution that he be suspended from practicing law for two years for misconduct.
Nakazaki, one of Peru’s top criminal defense attorneys, allegedly violated the Peruvian code of legal ethics […]