Overview
- Tony Jenzel Valverde Victoriano, known as “Pequeño J,” expanded his court testimony on Sunday before Judge Jorge Rodríguez after being extradited from Peru following seven months in detention.
- He told the court he was not at the scene when the three women were killed and said he did not know of any plan to murder them, and he apologized to the victims’ families.
- Valverde recognized photographs of prior encounters with the victims and admitted to having been given a pistol, a box of bullets and 50,000 pesos to hold by associates, according to his statement.
- He described confronting a co‑accused after the bodies were found, then fleeing with that man across the Bolivia border by boat and traveling to Peru, where he was detained in Pucusana and later extradited.
- The suspect remains held at Marcos Paz prison while the federal investigation continues and prosecutors and forensic teams will now weigh his denials and admissions alongside ballistics, security footage and other detained suspects’ statements.