Overview
- Esneider David Díaz Torres, a 20-year-old Colombian national, was detained in the Manzanilla area of Cercado de Lima during a Monday operation, according to the National Police.
- Officers seized a cellphone, a replica firearm, two magazines, ammunition, and illicit substances during the intervention, police said.
- Analysis of the phone found videos that police say show the suspect handling real guns and firing shots into the air.
- Detectives are examining suspected links between ‘La Guerrillera Nueva Generación’ and the gang ‘Los Mexicanos’ as they probe extortion of Gamarra merchants and transport firms, including an attack that killed a 70-year-old driver.
- Díaz Torres remains in DIRINCRI custody while investigators pursue cases tied to extortion, robbery, contract killings, and street-level drug sales and work to map a network that has targeted Lima’s commercial hub of Gamarra.