Janhzen Valverde Rodríguez, the father of Tony Valverde Victoriano, aka “Little J”, accused of directing a band of drug traffickers That killed three young people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, registered political activity while integrated by the criminal organization “The Grafts of New Jerusalem”, which acted in the district of La Esperanza, Trujillo (La Libertad).
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December 16, 2018, Janhzen Valverde was executed by a hitman of a criminal group called “El Gran Marquez”, in retaliation for the murder of one of its components. According to the Registry of Political Organizations (ROP), of the National Jury of Elections (JNE), the father of “Little J” militated in the Alliance for Progress (app) party, led by the current governor of La Libertad, César Acuña, between 2006 and 2007.
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He turned away from the party, but continued interested in politics, in 2014, he enrolled in the regional movement for development with security and honesty, which the retired colonel founded PNP Elidio Espinoza Quispewho exercised the provincial mayor of Trujillo between 2015 and 2018. Ironically, Espinoza was prosecuted for allegedly ordering extrajudicial executions of members of criminal organizations that operated among other areas in the district of La Esperanza.
Edwin Valverde, uncle of “Little J”. Photo: Dissemination
Party inclinations
PreciselyJanzhen Valverdewho used the alias of “bandit”, and his brothers Manuel Valverde, “Sherranash”, and Luis Valverde, “Chuman“, were known in police records as elements of the criminal organization “the Grafts of New Jerusalem”which disputed drug trafficking, extortion and sicariate in the district of La Esperanza, with the bands “La Jauría” and “El Gran Marquez”.
Another of the uncles of “Little J”, Edwin Valverde Rodríguez, also militated in Alliance for Progress. It was between 2008 and 2010. on January 3, 2023, Edwin Valverde died in suspicious circumstances, so much so that a tax folder was opened as “homicide.”
There are more family members linked to political organizations. El Patriarca, José Luis Valverde Flores, grandfather of “Little J”, enrolled as a militant of the regional work movement more work, which founded the former Congressman Apro Elías Rodríguez Zavaleta. It still appears as a militant in exercise.
As expected, José Luis Valverde Flores, as their children, have a criminal record. In 2000, the Prosecutor’s Office initiated a folder for the alleged crime of aggravated theft.
Despite the seriousness of the crimes that were imputed to them, neither the grandfather, nor the father, nor the uncles of “little J”, faced difficulties to register as militants of current political parties.

Left, Janhzen Valverde, dad of “Little J”, and, right, his uncle Edwin Valverde. Above the registration records of both in the Alliance for Progress (app) party. Photo: Dissemination
Criminal links
It is a relevant fact for political organizations: they need to improve, adjust, refine their militant affiliation filters, especially if they belong to areas such as the District of Esperanza, where the activity of the criminal gangs is notorious.
This is the case of Miguel Villanueva Silva.
During the investigation of Triple feminicide in Buenos Aires, it is confirmed that it was a retaliation for the theft of 400 kilos of cocaine who belonged to the organization of Tony Valverde Victoriano, “Little J”.
It was also determined that the crime occurred in a house of Peruvian Miguel Villanueva Silvawhere the bodies were also clandestinely buried. It turns out that Villanueva is a neighbor of “Little J”: the two registered as direction the new Indo -America human settlement, in the district of La Esperanza, in Trujillo. Practically door with door.
According to the JNE Political Organizations Registry, in 2004 the Peruvian APRA Party (PAP) requested the registration of Miguel Villanueva Silva. He was affiliated until 2021.
The Peruvian Villanueva and his Argentine partner were in charge of the house where the victims entered, Brenda del Castillo (20), Morena Verdi (20) and Lara Morena Gutiérrez (15). While tortured them to betray the thief of the 400 kilos of cocaine, one of the members of the band filmed the horror scenes.
Given the next electoral process, to avoid this type of militant leak with criminal prompt, the inspection of the registers must be adjusted.
Nine months of preventive detention
- Judge Christian Chumpitaz Pariona ordered the preventive arrest of Tony Valverde Victoriano, “Little J”, for 9 months for the severity of the crimes that are charged to him.
- Indicated as the one organized by the murder of the three women, “Little J” will be locked in the Penal de Nuevo Imperial, Cañete.
- The judicial decision was taken into account that Tony Valverde will face an extradition request by Argentine authorities.
