A couple captured in September last year, is related to the lot of long weapons that located in the fifth Tiapua, which remains in the Oripoto urbanization, El Hatillo municipality, Miranda.
“As six months ago we captured a man with weapons from which they arrived,” said Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, after completing his statement last Tuesday since the Fifth Tiapua. The minister alluded to a press conference offered on September 14, 2024, where he reported the seizure of 400 rifles sent from the United States.
In that public appearance of 2024, Cabello announced the capture of Wilber Joseph Castañeda, an active military of the United States, who in one of his chats said that the operation against the Miraflores Palace looked easy and that they would kill “to the dog”.
On that occasion they captured Giancarlo Spinelli Balague. “He has been captured for six months, that we found the weapons of which Simonovis brought,” said the minister showing a hympogram where Spinelli’s face appears as well as his wife María Alejandro Portillo Resh, also detained.
Together with that first lot of weapons seized in September 2024, they also seized portions of .50 rifle ammunition. “This is deadly,” Cabello said on Tuesday taking in his one of those cartridges, whose manufacture is manual with the help of several presses located in the fifth Tiapua.
He said that as a result of Spinelli’s capture, the .50 rifle located in the last hours within the aforementioned property located in Oripoto was learned.
“We have been looking for these ammunition for six months … we came to find them here,” said Cabello who said that in total, they were located in the fifth Tiapua, 2,523 armed cartridges and material to make 98 thousand.
The minister also showed the journalists present a round badge with the registration “Army Marines Navy”, found in the fifth.
