The procedure was carried out by agents attached to the Directorate of Strategic and Tactical Actions of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) inside house 3205 located on El Triunfo street in the aforementioned town of Guariqueño.
Four of the nine captured have a police record and one is requested for cattle theft. They are members of El Chachi, considered a Criminal Gang (Bacrim), linked to the Tren del Llano, according to the report.
During the procedure, the agents recovered two firearms: a pistol brand: PX4 Storm with devastated serial numbers and a 38 mm caliber Airweight revolver, 17 9 mm caliber ammunition, three 38 mm caliber ammunition, 98 ammunition for 7.62 x 51 caliber rifles and two motorcycles.
The arrest of the nine subjects was notified to the lawyer José Gregorio Torres, flagrante delicto prosecutor of the Public Ministry.
El Sombrero was the headquarters of the criminal organization founded by José Antonio Tovar Colina (El Picure) who was killed on May 3, 2016.
The so-called Banda del Picure is dedicated to the collection of vaccines against small and medium agricultural producers both in that municipality of Guariqueño and in the towns located to the south of Aragua.
Gilberto Malony Hernandez (El Malony) was in the structure of El Picure, but when it was shot down, El Malony founded El Tren del Llano whose headquarters are in Altagracia de Orituco (Guarico) and is currently directed by his cousin Oscar de Jesús Noguera Hernández ( El Pipi), according to research.
El Malony was killed in November 2021 during an armed confrontation with military agents that occurred in San Juan de Unare (Sucre).
