The Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps (Cicpc) managed to dismantle the criminal gang Los Joyeros, which specialized in fraud with precious metals and had elderly people as its main victims.
The procedure carried out in the sixth transversal of the Altamira urbanization, Chacao municipality (Miranda), captured Oscar Omar Sánchez Duque (56), nicknamed “El Mecha”; José Gerardo Pérez Peña (58), nicknamed “El Viejo”, and Eloy Alejandro Chamorro Rondón (26), nicknamed “Chamito”. The subjects recruited their victims under the pretext of buying antiques.
After gaining their trust and gaining entry to the homes, they requested pieces of gold. Then they used nitric acid to simulate a chemical reaction in a container of water; Thus they deceived their victims by claiming that it was not authentic, to seize the pieces.
