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Police Arrest Suspected ‘El Hampa de los Piratas’ Member in 2025 Kidnapping-Murder of Delivery Worker

Prosecutors plan a preventive detention request, with investigators pursuing co-authors abroad.

Overview

  • Yurmelys Eglee Mendoza Torrealba, 23, known as 'Yur', was captured in Cañete and turned over to the Ministerio Público on February 22, 2026.
  • Anti-kidnapping investigators say she rented the room used to hold Fares Soto Wong, monitored his captivity, and used her bank account to receive transfers from his funds.
  • Police report the abductors demanded S/100,000 and sent proof-of-life messages before the victim was found dead the next day in San Juan de Miraflores after torture and fatal head trauma.
  • Co-authors identified as Juan Daniel Linarez Rodríguez ('Dani') and Andri Matute Tovar ('Matute') remain fugitives, believed to be in Venezuela and Chile respectively.
  • Detectives say the ransom was tied to a bank account in the name of slain criminal Jesús Acevedo Chacón and describe the case as an 'atypical' kidnapping with the motive still under investigation, including possible 'gota a gota' lending and links to other killings.