Police Seize 155 Kgs Of Cocaine Paste In Southern Peru

Peru’s National Police on Friday seized 155 kilograms of cocaine paste from two individuals travelling on a highway between the southern cities of Cusco and Arequipa. The seizure occurred early Friday and was part of operations surrounding year-end celebrations in Cusco, state news agency Andina reported. The cocaine paste, worth approximately $60,000 in Europe, was being [...]

Authorities confiscate some 190kg of cocaine in arrests

Peruvian authorities have confiscated about 190 kilograms of cocaine in numerous operations throughout the country over the past week, local media reported. One of the operations included two police officers who were caught with 13kg of cocaine paste in the San Juan Bautista district in Peru’s central-south Ayacucho region. The “narco-cops” were identified as Felix [...]

Peru police capture alleged high ranking Shining Path member

Peruvian police say they have captured Edgar Nicanor Mejia, allegedly a high ranking member of the Shining Path faction led by Florindo Eleuterio Flores Hala, also known as “Comrade Artemio,” state news agency Andina reported. Mejia, who is also known as “Comrade Izula,” was reportedly Artemio’s right hand man in the Proseguir, or “to continue,” [...]

Local authorities in Junin call for greater gov’t presence following military, Shining Path confrontation

Authorities in Junin region’s Jauja province have called on greater presence of Peru’s government following a confrontation between state security forces and suspected Shining Path guerrillas that left one army captain dead. The lieutenant governor of Rondayacu, the village where the shootout took place, would only speak to CNR news service on condition her name [...]

Milk, no cream… and a dash of cocaine with your coffee? Police seize 68 kilos of cocaine concealed in coffee shipment

Peru anti-drug police seized 68 kilograms of high-purity cocaine, stashed in 500 bags of a coffee shipment due to be exported from the port of Paita, reported daily El Comercio on Friday. The police had followed the cocaine trail north from Lima, and made the intervention when the shipment was about to be loaded onto [...]

Peruvian to hang for cocaine trafficking in Malaysia

Peruvian Reyes Amasifuén Tello, a 30-year old Peruvian charged with cocaine trafficking in Malaysia, was sentenced to death Jan. 30 by a Kuala Lumpur court. “We hoped that the sentence would be less severe,” said an anonymous source from Peru’s Embassy in Malaysia in comments to Radio Programas, or RPP. “It’s a difficult situation, and [...]

Police seize 300 kilos of cocaine in Lima’s largest port, Callao

Peruvian drug enforcement police seized  300 kilos of cocaine stashed in six black suitcases on Sunday as it was being prepared for shipment in a large metal container from Peru’s Callao port to Belgium. One person was arrested. According to Peru’s National Commission for Development and Life Without Drugs, or Devida, 80 percent of Peru-produced [...]