Overview
- In Acapulco, six suspects were detained after an attack on federal agents that left three police injured and one alleged assailant dead, with authorities seizing weapons and drugs and identifying Antonio “N” as the suspected mastermind.
- Peru’s Public Ministry condemned extortion threats against prosecutor Margarita Haro Pinto, attributed to the group Los Pepes SJL, after messages demanded she abandon a case that secured 18 months of preventive detention for alleged members of Los Chukys.
- Investigations in Peru continue after an explosive was detonated outside a Trujillo lodging in an extortion attempt, a worker was shot dead in Villa El Salvador, and a gunman killed one man and wounded another in a street attack in central Lima.
- Following a violent clash in Argentina’s Barrio Mariano Moreno, coordinated raids yielded six arrests and the seizure of 226 packets of high-purity cocaine, 54 of marijuana, multiple firearms and more than 450,000 pesos in cash.
- Sinaloa authorities reported five men killed and four injured in separate shootings in Culiacán and Navolato, including a 14-year-old who died during an attack outside a home in Villa Juárez.