Overview
- A joint military–police team executed Operation Libertad at the Sanone mine in Alto Pataz, freeing 29 workers held by an illegal mining group.
- The suspects fled deeper into the tunnels using explosives to hinder pursuit, and authorities reported no injuries among those rescued.
- Coordinated actions across Lima dismantled five extortion groups tied to loan‑sharking, hired killings and protection rackets, with arrests and seizures of explosives, firearms and drugs.
- In Carabayllo, officers seized two dynamite cartridges and a war grenade from alleged gota a gota enforcers, and in Santa Anita police foiled an attempted arson on a Line 505 bus linked to the Clan del Norte.
- Police in Trujillo arrested alleged leaders of Los Pájaros whom investigators link to the Tabaco y Ron attack, while an earlier raid in Pataz dismantled Los Zetas and recovered long guns and explosive materials.