Overview
- On Jan. 11, staff at the Chiclayo prison found 11 packets of cocaine base hidden inside two containers of beef stew brought by visitor Elizabeth Rivera Calderón.
- Hours later, Milagros Elizabeth Alarcón Cantos was intercepted with two microchips concealed in her wallet while seeking to visit detainee Luis Anthony Coronel Alarcón.
- Both women were turned over to Peru’s National Police with notice to the Public Ministry for criminal investigations carrying penalties of two to 20 years in prison.
- Early Jan. 12, guards at Trujillo’s El Milagro facility detected inmate Edgar Cotrina Osorio on the perimeter and found him entangled in concertina wire after he scaled a wall.
- The prisoner, serving a 30-year sentence for aggravated homicide, received medical care and was transferred to the Regional Teaching Hospital of Trujillo as prosecutors took up the case.