Overview
- Police captured Richard Daniel Briceño Gamboa, known as 'Crespo', after a shootout in El Porvenir and a court ordered nine months of preventive detention while he faces probes for homicide, illegal arms and explosives possession, and extortion.
- Fiscal investigators formally link 'Crespo' to a double homicide in El Porvenir and to the March 7 grenade attack on the Dalí discotheque that wounded dozens.
- Paul Jhim Haro Raza, alias 'Viejo Jhim', and Gonzalo Nolberto Obeso Carranza, alias 'Chalo', were arrested in flagrante while allegedly collecting a S/10,000 extortion payment and have been sent to El Milagro under eight to nine months of preventive detention as reported by outlets.
- The group's top suspect, Jhonsson Smith Cruz Torres ('Jhonsson Pulpo'), remains a fugitive reportedly identified abroad with a S/500,000 reward offered for information leading to his capture.
- Officials say the arrests form part of an intelligence-led campaign to map and dismantle Los Pulpos' collection networks and that penitentiary authorities have tightened custody to curb criminal coordination from prison while investigations and international cooperation continue.