Luis Rafael Santana Argueta (31), alias Luis Manilla, leader of a criminal gang, was killed during an operation carried out this Thursday in Morocopo, Tasajera and other sectors of the Aragonese municipalities José Rafael Revenga (El Consejo) and Santos Michelena (Las Tejerías) ), according to reports.
Two other subjects were killed in the fray. In addition, the criminals murdered Cicpc detective José Alberto Serrano Delgado, assigned to the Investigation Support Unit, Special Actions Brigade, as reported by Commissioner Douglas Rico, director of the scientific police. “A glorious death triumphs over time,” Rico wrote on his Instagram account.
Luis Manilla directed one of the cells of the Aragua Train, the criminal structure that operated from the Aragua Penitentiary Center, under the command of Héctor Guerrero Flores (Niño Guerrero) and that was dismembered when the Government took over that prison located in Tocorón on the 20th. September 2023.
Agents from the Cicpc, Bolivarian National Guard and Bolivarian National Police participate in the operation deployed this Thursday in Aragua, whose officials remain in the area to find the capture of the other members of the Luis Manilla criminal gang dedicated to kidnapping, extortion and trafficking. of drugs, among others.