Global Courant 2023-05-17 20:33:30
Three people were captured this Wednesday, May 17, in various operations by the National Civil Police and the Public Ministry in different parts of Guatemala.
According to information from the authorities, they are alleged members of the group “Los Temibles del Oriente”, accused of having kidnapped a woman in 2019.
The investigation details that the case was registered on August 31, 2019, when the gang kidnapped a 55-year-old woman in zone 15 of the capital.
The kidnappers asked for US$1 million for the release of the victim, who was rescued during an operation by the Anti-Kidnapping Command on September 2 of the same year, in zone 1 of the capital.
During that year’s operation, the PNC captured five of the presumed members of the group, who were identified as:
Edwin Efraín Castillo Pereira, 37 years old; Rigoberto Carranza Duque, 27; William Osvaldo Garcia Oajaca, 23; Ruben Danilo Barrientos Pereira, 23; and Óscar David Diéguez Antuche, 22.
Almost four years after the fact, the authorities reported three new captures.
This May 17, José Abel García Pérez, 36, the alleged leader of the kidnapping gang, was apprehended in a shopping center in zone 17.
In addition, Lorena Orozco Galicia, 50, was apprehended in zone 15, accused of being an informant for the structure.
Óscar Armando Morales Chacón, 25, was also captured during an operation in Esquipulas, Chiquimula.
These arrests were made following the kidnapping of a person, on August 31, 2019, in zone 15, for whom his kidnappers demanded a million dollars for his release. pic.twitter.com/NuKyntgeQE
— Guatemalan PNC (@PNCdeGuatemala) May 17, 2023
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