A man identified as José Javier Bernal Silva (48) was detained by agents of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), who detected that the subject was transporting 60 high-caliber ammunition.
This procedure was carried out on the La Salesiana highway, Alto Barinas parish, Barinas municipality, reported Favio Rolón, head of the Police Coordination Center installed in the aforementioned sector of the capital of Barinas.
Bernal Silva was traveling in a Kía Río, plates AA909VT, where he carried 60 ammunition, two grenades (one stun grenade and another APG-111 Cavim smoke grenade), a radio transmitter, a vest lining and a police uniform, alluding to the extinct Special Action Forces (FAES), said Commissioner Rolón.
From other sources, we learned that the detainee is allegedly a member of a group called Los Boliches, a gang that charges vaccines in dollars to agricultural producers in the area.
Bernal Silva’s arrest occurred last Tuesday and he was presented before Court 4 of Control of Barinas, where the representative of the Public Ministry charged him with the crimes of illicit arms trafficking and improper use of uniform, according to the order. transfer 007960-2024, signed by Judge Yeison Alejandro Moreno Mendoza.
Weapons seized in Trujillo
Another similar procedure was carried out by agents of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) in the San Luis sector, Andrés Bello municipality, Trujillo state, where they seized a Galesi-Brescia pistol, caliber 6.35 mm, a pistol magazine, a radio transmitter, a cell phone and 33 cartridges, including 26 for rifles.
All the material was transported by two members of the criminal gang founded by Darwin Rivas (El Cagón), who were identified as Luzneidi Paola Segovia Araujo and Elson David Araujo Gutiérrez. Both will be prosecuted for illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of war material, according to a report from Detachment 231 of the GNB.
They presume that the criminal gang El Cagón is collecting war material, given the latest police and military procedures where members of that group have been detained with batches of bullets and firearms.
And in the Los Olivos sector, Mariño municipality (Porlamar), military personnel captured Yhonathan Harry Durán León from whom they seized a firearm of non-industrialized manufacture, according to minutes of the Urban Security Detachment N 71 of the GNB.
The procedures were notified to the Public Ministry.
