Authorities presume that at least one sniper was involved in the murder of two citizen security officials, an event that occurred on December 27 in El Dos, a rural sector of the José Félix Ribas municipality (Tucupido), Guárico state.
The perpetrators of the double homicide are members of a Tren del Llano cell installed in the aforementioned Guariqueño municipality. Apparently, the subjects knew that a police-military operation would be deployed and waited for the officials in the El Dos sector, where the terrain has certain elevations. The criminals took advantage of those hills to shoot at the officials.
In that ambush, Commissioner Wither Torres Bastardo, assigned to the Guárico regional police, and Sergeant Arnaldo Vivas Vivas, a member of the National Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command (Conas) number 34, died. Torres was shot in the occipital region and Vivas in the area. abdominal.
Poliguárico officer Marcos Daniel Gutiérrez was injured in the head, while sergeants Franklin Adonay González Martinez and Luis José Palomo Salazar were left with multiple trauma and a brush from a projectile passage on their left forearm, respectively.
As a result of this event, the Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (Ceofanb) reinforced the operations that had been carried out after the presidential elections, due to the incursion of the Llano Train into acts of violence for political purposes.
The reinforcement of operations involves the deployment of a Quick Reaction Unit (Urra-Army) together with officials from the Bolivarian National Guard and Poliguárico.
One of the last procedures carried out by the Urra-mixta took place in the Siglo 20 sector, José Félix Ribas municipality (Tucupido), Guárico, where they detained two members of the Tren del Llano identified as Richards Alexander Alcalá Silveira (El Abuelo) and Argenis José Matos Arcia.
From these people they seized 71 cartridges for 7.62×51 mm caliber rifles, a radio transmitter, two telephone equipment and a tear gas device, according to a report from Conas 34.