Two members of the criminal gang Tren del Llano were captured in the Las Piñitas sector, José Félix Ribas municipality (Tucupido), Guárico, according to military sources.
The detainees were identified as Wilfredo Javier Álvarez Carapa and Eleazar Berrueta, who were carrying a hand grenade, 26 cartridges for 7.62×51 mm caliber rifles, ten 5.56 mm caliber cartridges, a radio transmitter and binoculars, according to a report from the National Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command (Conas) 34.
Álvarez and Berrueta were handed over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office where a case was opened against them for illegal possession of war material.
The arrest of the two gariteros (guards) of the Tren del Llano took place within the framework of a police-military deployment carried out in rural areas of San Rafael de Laya, a parish of the José Félix Ribas municipality, east of the Guárico state.
In another procedure, military agents patrolled the central area of the Miranda municipality (Los Puertos de Altagracia), Zulia state. There they arrested a member of the criminal gang El Oso identified as Arturo José Medina Piñero.
Thirty 7.62x51mm caliber rifle cartridges, a hand grenade and a telephone set containing conversations and photographic reports of firearms were seized from the detainee, according to a report from GNB Detachment 113.
Medina Piñero will be prosecuted for illegal possession of war material.
