Overview
- Johan Edinson Jara Rondón was abducted on February 15 after leaving a Huamachuco discotheque and was forced into a pickup at gunpoint.
- The kidnappers used his phone to send relatives videos showing him blindfolded with signs of assault to coerce payment.
- A six-officer team with a negotiator assumed communications and conducted intelligence work that narrowed the search to Bolívar province.
- Police reached the Calemar mine, where the captors fled into underground galleries and abandoned the victim, who was then rescued.
- A woman who had accompanied him was detained in Vijus for failing to report the crime, and investigators continue efforts to identify and capture the gang.