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String of High-Value Thefts Hits Peru and Argentina, Prompting Intensified Investigations

Police with prosecutors move to secure video evidence, ordering forensic exams.

Overview

  • In Sullana, burglars forced a rolling door at La Curacao and stole more than S/20,000–25,000 in smartphones and accessories, discovered by staff on arrival.
  • Officers from the Comisaría de Sullana and Depincri took statements and requested CCTV from nearby businesses to identify the culprits.
  • The break-in mirrors a late-November raid on a nearby Claro outlet valued above S/25,000, with merchants suspecting the same crew and pressing for deeper inquiries.
  • In Argentina, a solo thief seized a backpack with U$S 80,000 in a suspected bank “salidera,” triggering route controls as fiscal Celia Mussi engaged economic-crimes specialists.
  • Also in Argentina, robbers emptied a polirrubro in El Zanjón for an estimated sum above three million pesos after breaking a lock, with Criminalística exams ordered by fiscal Ángel Belluomini and a red Peugeot reportedly seen near the store.