Overview
- Interior Minister Vicente Tiburció said police detained an alleged 16-year-old gunman in the December 6 murder of reporter Fernando Núñez in La Libertad, with surveillance video showing two assailants on a motorcycle.
- The judiciary sentenced three National Police officers to 17 years in prison for the 2008 torture and sexual assault of Azul Rojas Marín, setting a landmark precedent for bias‑motivated torture by state agents.
- Urban transport leaders met Prime Minister Ernesto Álvarez to assess anti‑extortion efforts as operators report S/20,000 monthly demands; Etcapsa kept its fleet idle after threats from a criminal group.
- In San Martín de Porres, a police patrol vehicle carrying detainees struck a pickup and then a Metropolitano bus near Parque del Trabajo, leaving a detainee and two officers injured and under medical observation.
- Authorities are also probing the shooting death of a woman found near the old Panamericana Norte in Huaura, a fatal hit‑and‑run that killed a 21‑year‑old in Ate, a La Victoria fire that exposed an illegal lithium‑battery warehouse, and a Jaén precinct chief detained after a DUI crash.