The leader of the criminal organization Los Cáscaras, which has its headquarters in Trujillo, was killed in Caracas, reported the Cicpc, the police agency that carried out the procedure.
Agents attached to the CICPC Criminal Organizations Search and Capture Division, deployed on Los Manguitos avenue, Sabana Grande, where José Ramón Materano Pinto (31), alias Cheche, who from Caracas organized kidnappings and extortions, was staying at a hotel that his partners executed in Trujillo and Zulia.
In fact, Materano presented four requests by the Trujillo courts in files related to intentional homicide and qualified intentional homicide,
Cicpc officials tried to arrest the subject but he started an exchange of shots that ended with his death.
Alias Cheche had a false identity in the name of José Calixto Balza Pereira.