Cicpc agents killed Álvaro Luis Castillo (El Tigre), who was considered a supplier of war materials to the Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization dedicated to kidnapping, extortion and hired assassins, among others.
The Cicpc’s Instagram site posted a report indicating that the procedure was carried out by officials of the Intelligence Directorate together with the Special Unit to Support the Investigation of the Special Actions Brigade.
According to the story of the scientific police, the man resisted when the agents tried to capture him in the Sucre parish, Libertador municipality, Caracas. The man pulled out a gun and started an exchange of shots with the police commission. As a result, El Tigre was badly injured, for which he was taken to the Miguel Pérez Carreño hospital where he died.
The location of this individual occurred after the Cicpc captured two other members of the Tren de Aragua organization in Ciudad Ojeda (Zulia), identified as Marlin Andreína Villalobos Niño (38) and Evain Segundo González Gallardo (53).
Those two detainees were transporting 1,021 ammunition, two grenades and firearms, says the Cicpc report.
After interrogating the detainees, it was determined that alias El Tigre had supplied this war material to Villalobos and González, who would later distribute it to the Tren de Aragua and the El Adriancito gang.
Alias El Tigre had a request from the 26th Control Court of the Caracas Metropolitan Area and by the Second Control Court with jurisdiction at the National Level in Cases Associated with Crimes of Terrorism, for aggravated extortion, financing of terrorism, aggravated association to commit a crime, and laundering; in addition, records for generic robbery, physical violence against women and family, motor vehicle theft and qualified homicide.
Last week the Cicpc arrested three other members of the Aragua Train in Caracas from whom it seized 236 ammunition, a rifle-type firearm and recovered a Jeep Grand Cherokee, license plate AE581NV.
In this case, those captured are identified as Jesús Eduardo Torres Graterol (38), José Luis Grima Torrealba (53) and Gabriela Alejandra Griman Álvarez (30).
