Peru’s National Police (PNP) has deployed intelligence teams to monitor the country’s northern border and prevent the eventual entry of ‘Niño Guerrero’, the leader of the criminal organization ‘Tren de Aragua’, which is being targeted by Venezuelan authorities wanted after this Wednesday’s intervention in the Tocorón prison.

“The action and response is immediate, we have intelligence teams and photography equipment there in the border area, in such a way that we can warn of any foreign movement that could prevent the entry of this subject,” the Commandant General said on Saturday. of the PNP, General Jorge Luis Angulo, to the state radio station Radio Nacional.

The aim is to ensure that Héctor Guerrero, alias ‘Niño Guerrero’, accused of being the leader of the international gang, which also has active groups in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile, does not enter the country.

Venezuela confirms the escape of alias ‘El Niño’ Guerrero, top leader of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang

In this context, the Minister of the Interior and Justice of Venezuela, Remigio Ceballos, assured this Saturday that his country has “completely dismantled” the gang with the arrest of 88 of its members, following the intervention in Tocorón, the prison where the organization was a born criminal who devoted himself to “committing heinous crimes” such as kidnapping, drug trafficking, human trafficking, murder, hitmen and extortion, as he noted.

Ceballos added that investigations and “search processes” continue to arrest anyone linked to this group, “even at the international level, if some members escape or flee.”

In Peru, the head of the PNP emphasized that the decision to declare a state of emergency in the Lima districts of San Juan de Lurigancho and San Martín de Porres, as well as in northern Sullana, is “a response to the political will” of the government. to tackle common crime and organized crime.

“We see that this is producing the first results, we still have two months ahead of us. The main objective is to reduce crime in these jurisdictions,” he added.

General Angulo also said the decision to display the captured suspected criminals in red suits and shackles is consistent with them being involved “in a serious criminal act.” (JO)