Guided by the GPS of one of the stolen cell phones, police personnel from the Pichanaqui police station under the command of Major PNP Anderson Jonathan Aquino Blancas, at 5:00 am yesterday arrived at a home located in AA.VV. Fortress 2, near the Army base in Pichanaqui. There the owner of the house, Gladys Rosa SL (62), owner of a poultry farm, let them enter. The agents searched all the rooms of this home, managing to locate three subjects hiding on the second floor.
Jesús Ángel Avilés Lucero (20), alias “Demonio” and the minors Jair JVP (16) alias “Farruko” and Anderson FJY (16) alias “Bimbo”, the dangerous gang “The Pirates of the Grass”, which a few hours before They had attacked a bus with bullets and robbed the passengers, they were arrested. According to the owner of the home, Jesús Avilés worked with her peeling chickens and gained her trust so he rented her a room in her home.
Panic. The robbery occurred around 3:40 a.m. yesterday, when the D5Z-950 bus of the Selva EIRL company that was traveling from Huancayo to San Martín de Pangoa, in the province of Satipo, was traveling through the desolate sector. Boca Tigre, in the district of Perené. The criminals, aboard a vehicle, intercepted the bus, boarded the vehicle and stripped the passengers of their belongings, including cell phones, money and other valuables.
During the robbery, one of the assailants, armed with a gun, pointed the gun at the driver’s head, while the other two robbed the vehicle’s occupants. A passenger, identified as Pedro Mario Gutiérrez Valentín (66), who was near the driver’s cabin, reported that he heard a gunshot and saw how one of the criminals threatened the driver while the others assaulted the passengers.
“They were moments of terror and helplessness,” commented one of the witnesses.
Intervention
During the intervention, two pistol-type firearms were seized, one of them a charm and the other a replica, seven cell phones stolen from the passengers.
It was learned that this was the first assault on the road they had carried out, and they identified Boca de Tigre as a lonely sector with little police presence. The plan was to then escape to a native community and if everything went well, continue committing crimes as highway robbers.
The case has been communicated to the Mixed Corporate Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Pichanaqui, headed by lawyer Patricia Ángela Toribio Rivera, Provincial Prosecutor, who has ordered the pertinent legal investigations.
