Overview
- Peru’s Grupo Terna and Escuadrón Verde intercepted a crew after an armed robbery inside Lima’s Polvos Azules, recovering $71,000, seizing a firearm and vehicles, and arresting three suspects identified as Dante Aliaga, Erick Pomalima and Fredy Calderón; a fourth suspect fled wounded after an exchange of fire.
- PNP leadership reported 190 homicides in Peru from January 1–29, a figure officials compare favorably to the same period in 2025 even as analysts and communities question claims of improvement.
- Argentina logged 94,500 vehicle thefts in a year—about one every six minutes—with a 54% rise since 2021, while a Quilmes incident saw a woman who identified herself as police strike an alleged armed robber with her car, leading to his detention and an internal administrative probe of her actions.
- A Minnesota man, Mark Anderson, was arrested at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center after posing as an FBI agent in an attempt to free Luigi Mangione, carrying a pizza cutter described as a steel blade; Mangione faces state and federal trials, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty.
- In Sinaloa, Mexico, local media reported direct armed attacks on two Movimiento Ciudadano deputies and on Culiacán’s public security chief, described as part of a pattern of political violence linked by analysts to cartel power.