The PNP NCP’s cell phone Edgar Morales García, who died bullying during a robbery in Callao on March 30, gave the track for the identification of other arms colleagues that made up an organization dedicated to assaulting companies that transported gold bars for export.
It was believed that there were 3, but the homicide research division fully identified a total of 7 noncommissionedall in activity, led by cash Víctor Hinostroza Luque, “Rayo”.
The Police involved shared a WhatsApp group account They expressly opened to coordinate the theft of 6 kilos of gold on the night of Sunday, March 30. At first, in addition to Víctor Hinostroza, “Rayo”, the PNP Pnp Edu Rojas Wong Wong, detained, and Edgar Morales García, deceased were recognized.
The message registered in the Chat confirms that all the identified police had some degree of participation in the robbery of the gold cargo owned by the company Diconsa Ingenieros. Edgar Morales came to subtract a sack where the 6 kilos bar was of the precious metal, but was discovered by two navy personnel of Peru, who were protecting transportation on their Franco day. The military managed to hurt the noncommissioned officer Edgar Morales García, who collapsed and died when he intended to escape the scene.
In addition, the surveillance video cameras in the area filmed all the movements of the police during the robbery, in the middle of a shower of bullets. His faces were recorded. For the Homicide Research Division, it was established that Luis Roa, Mario Cervera, Rafael Arrand and Luis Durand, intervened in the robbery under the leadership of Víctor Hinostroza Luque, “Rayo”.
Of the total of 7 identified police, one has died, another is imprisoned and the other 5 are in a situation of not.
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Crime companions
According to the testimonies and evidence collected by the Homicide Research Division, Víctor Hinostroza was the one in charge of capturing other non -commissioned officers of his institution to form the criminal gang and dedicate himself exclusively to the theft of gold. To this end rHe educated the logistics media of the National Policesuch as vehicles, weapons and uniforms for their illicit activities.
Víctor Hinostroza appeared in the group WhatsApp with the appellation of “Lightning” and was indicated as the brain of the group of robbing police.
The police officers who had access to the cell phone memory of the deceased Edgar Morales García, found compromising conversations about the planning of the robbery of the Golden Liver.
Even hours before the robbery of the precious metal, “Ray” Hinostroza summoned the rest of the band key.
“Today you play the Pichanga (theft)” Aliste your shoes (weapons)! All with his poles (police vest)! ”, He instructed the” ray “Hinostroza by Chat.
During the visualization of Edgar Morales’s cell phone, all those involved appeared with appellants, which allowed them to identify them.
The list included Mario Cervera Romero, “Chili”; Luis Roa Mancilla, “Thony Roa”; Rafael Arracue Pantoja, “Culi”; and Luis Durand Mendoza, “Bam”.
He Group WhatsApp Administrator, was the third -term of Third Luis Durand MendozaRight arm of “Ray” Hinostroza. The account was created on March 23 and eliminated it on the 30th of that month, minutes after the assault. Luis Durand had planned to celebrate his 28th birthday on April 1. That is, the day after the assault.
Born in Lima, Luis Durand worked in the Special Services Unit (USE) of the Seventh Lima Police Region and graduated from the PNP School of NCOs on August 31, 2017.
Rafael Arracue Pantoja, 28, a native of the district of San Marcos, of the Ancashina de Wari province, fulfilled containment functions in the band. The day of the assault was in charge of repelling the attack before a reaction of the security members that guarded the gold cargo.
Surprisingly, Petty Officer Rafael Arracue was assigned to the Intelligence Department of the Directorate of Investigation against Corruption (Dicocor) of the National Police. Like its arms partner Luis Durand, he belongs to the 2017 promotion.
For his part, the Second Documentation of Mario Cervera Romero, 29, also fulfilled containment functions in the “Rayo” band. Cervera provided services at the Payet police station, in the Comas district, whose unit belongs to the North Police Division 2 of the Seventh Lima Police Region.
Cervera, like his colleagues Durand and Drague graduated from the PNP NCP SCHOOL PROMOTION 2017.
Another of the troops who had to repel the attack in the assault was Luis Roa Mancilla, 30. He graduated from the PNP non -commissioned school based in Huancavelica, in 2016. Born in Comas, Lima, Roa provided services at the Emergency Squad of Ventanilla, in El Callao.
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They made smoke
Prosecutor Orlando Intor Ríos, from the Eighth Corporate Criminal Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, ordered to open investigation against the PNP NCOs Víctor Hinostroza Luque, Edu Rojas Wong, Luis Durand Mendoza, Rafael Arracue Pantoja, Mario Cervera Romero and Luis Roa Mancilla. It imputes the crime of aggravated robbery in the grievance of the transport company Atanea & Hera and of the Diconsa Engineer, this last owner of the 6 kilos gold bullion.
However, when the agents of the Homicide Research Division went to notify the non -commissioned officers Víctor Hinostroza, Luis Durand, Rafael Arratue and Luis Roa Mancilla, these were not in police units where they fulfill functions. They have abandoned destination.
For example, the “Ray” Hinostroza, who provided services at Central 105, went on vacation the day after the assault, did not return to his unit. According to his superiors, Hinostroza had to appear on April 21, but never returned.
“Lightning” Hinostroza was already known as gold bars robber.
In the police archives it had a rosary of complaints for theft and kidnapping. However, with this background I continued to wear the uniform. This case shows that the National Police does not have adequate system of control of its members.
In August 2021, “Rayo” Hinostroza fell in the city of Arequipa, after the prosecutor Willam Montes Malpartida, of the tenth corporate provincial prosecutor’s office, denounced him for participating in the theft of 15 kilos of gold, equivalent to S/5 million, owned by the Balaji company, in El Callao.
Judge Gissella Huaytalla Pillaca of the Third Court of Preparatory Investigation of Callao, ruled 9 months in prison for Hinostroza and sent it to the Sarita Colonia prison. But soon he was released for “excess prison.”
In 2023, Hinostroza made the Disciplinary Administrative Court of the Interior Ministry will revoke a temporary suspensionimposed by the General Inspectorate of the National Police, precisely because of the theft of a gold bullion.
The “Ray” Víctor Hinostroza Luque returned to the police institution to continue committing crimes with the PNP uniform.
