Police seize 440 pounds of cocaine in Peru port

Police have seized 200 kilograms, about 440 pounds, of cocaine in the port city of Callao in the largest cocaine seizure in Peru so far this year. The cocaine was hidden in a crate among replicas of Inca ceramics aboard the Elqui, which is owned by the Chilean CSAV shipping company, the largest in Latin America, [...]

Police begin investigation into finances of drug trafficking enterprise

The head of Peru’s anti-narcotics unit, General Miguel Hidalgo, announced that they will begin preliminary investigations into 124 companies and some 77 people suspected of money laundering. The investigation surrounds the Sánchez Paredes family, which is suspected of using the companies to hide decades-old profits from drug trafficking. According to Agencia Andina, the investigations will include the [...]

Police arrest hacker who targeted Peru media

Peruvian police have arrested a 20-year-old computer science student accused of hacking into the websites of three Peruvian newspapers in early January. According to daily Correo, Diego Luis Bardales, alias Sdm, is suspected of leading a campaign against Peru’s media calling for authorities to release Cyber Alexis, the alias of César Alexis Atoche, 23, who [...]

Family killed for halting coca production

A family of coca growers who had replaced their illicit yield for legal alternative crops was brutally executed Sunday morning in Peru’s eastern jungle province of Padre Abad, in Ucayali Department. The mayor of a local community told Radio Programas radio the crime was in retaliation for the family’s support of a State program that [...]

Vigilante mob kills father and son in Peru’s southern Andes

Residents in an Andean town near Peru’s southern border with Bolivia took justice into their own hands early Monday morning by drowning a father and son who they suspected of killing a 30-year-old man. According to daily La República, Lorenzo Mamani Vilca and his son were captured by the mob in the town of Ilave, [...]

Five killed in highway bus robbery

Five people are dead and 20 injured after a dozen gunmen robbed two buses before dawn Sunday close to Peru’s southern border with Bolivia. According to local media, passengers on the buses were mainly workers from Peru’s informal mines who were transporting gold and silver from Sina district to the city of Juliaca, in Puno [...]

Del Castillo: Military unit tried to eliminate García during Fujimori’s ’self-coup’

Cabinet Chief Jorge Del Castillo testified today at the human rights trial of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori that an elite military unit tried to kill President Alan García during Fujimori’s 1992 “self-coup.” Del Castillo said the unit was likely the Colina group, the paramilitary death squad that Fujimori is accused of authorizing to carry out [...]

Peru Police officers accused of leading highway gang in bus robberies

Two veteran police officers have been arrested for allegedly leading a highway gang that assaulted and plundered passenger buses in southern Peru. According to daily La República, officers Manuel Isidro Arias Calla, 40, and Raúl Fernán García Montes, 46, were arrested on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning in the city of Tacna, capital of [...]

Peruvians question attorney general’s stance on jailed cocaine baron

A letter obtained by daily Peru. 21 has raised further questions about Attorney General Adelaida Bolívar’s insistence on transferring one of her prosecutors back to a jungle city post where her life would reportedly be at risk from Peru’s jailed cocaine kingpin Fernando Zevallos. According to the daily, Zevallos sent Bolívar a seven-page letter from [...]

Peruvian municipal police chief arrested for drug trafficking

The police chief from the city of La Mar, capital of San Miguel province in Ayacucho department, was arrested Sunday night after he was allegedly caught transporting 25 kilograms, or 55 pounds, of cocaine paste. According to daily La República, Captain Pedro Guzmán Ayma had wrapped the paste in 59 packages and hid it in [...]

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