Prosecutor’s Office begins investigation into illegal miners who attacked the Police in Huamachuco

The Prosecutor’s Office began an investigation into illegal miners who attacked the Police in Huamachuco, and left eight law enforcement personnel injured.

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“In response to an attack by alleged illegal miners on police officers in Huamachuco, the Mixed Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Sánchez Carrión, La Libertad, initiated preliminary proceedings for the alleged crime of aggravated theft and violence against the authority to prevent the exercise of its functions,” published the Public Ministry in your X account.

He also ordered that the injured police officers undergo medical evaluation at the Regional Hospital. In addition, to collect their statements, the photographic record and the drone of the Summa Gold company, identify those responsible, among other procedures.

As reported today Peru21Last Thursday, members of the patrol and criminals from Huamachuco, a city located six hours from Trujillo, in the Sierra de La Libertad, burned a truck of the National Police of Peru and seriously injured a non-commissioned officer.

This happened when the police contingent arrived at the area due to long gun shots coming from the forest and the forest nursery.

Given the complaints from the residents and the danger for those who travel the communal roads, the police arrived to verify what was happening.

This was the police operation against illegal miners in Huamachuco.

Hours of terror were experienced in the Polo forest of Huamachuco, the place where illegal miners have gathered to reopen the mines that were closed by the Peruvian National Police (PNP): they burned a truck and attacked law enforcement officers.

The illegal miners returned with more force, with long-range weapons, and financing with money the Coigobamba patrol, the hamlet that would support the criminals who are allegedly hiding on the property of Fernando Polo Espejo, according to complaints consulted by Perú21.

In that place, they were attacked, according to sources, by the gang led by Eusebio Valverde, a character who has not been arrested so far and who works directly, according to the residents, with Pedro Polo Lozano.

The criminals guarding the illegal work in the Polo forest fired shots while working with machinery, being retreated by police personnel who were in the area.

THEY SHOOT AT THE POLICE

Then they went for the National Police van.

Illegal miners and members of the patrol doused the vehicle with gasoline and set it on fire. Then those who allegedly lead the gang that has the Polo forest as its lair got together: the brothers Jaime Coronel Laiza, César Coronel Laiza and José Coronel Laiza together with Milton Valverde, Kevin Valverde and the leader Eusebio Valverde to summon criminals from Pataz and finance the logistics that allow transporting them to Huamachuco.

The subprefect of Huamachuco, Fanny Orna, should act firmly in the face of these events that demonstrate inaction of the Regional Government of Libertad, the National Police itself and neighborhood authorities, especially the municipal agent of Shiracmaca and the president of the Coigobamba patrol, Heyder Valverde, who is the son of Eusebio, who would be head parker in the Polo forest.

The silence of Vicente Ruiz, president of the peasant patrols of Huamachuco, is also striking. He punishes drunks, supports street protests, confronts authorities, but against illegal miners he would prefer to stay on the sidelines, according to the same sources.

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