At least 5 folks have been detained in a macro police operation carried out in Cerro Chuño, within the northern metropolis of Arica, which sought to dismantle the Los Gallegos and Tren del Coro gangs, which have hyperlinks to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua.
The Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) reported that 37 properties have been raided and greater than 2 kilograms of medicine have been seized, primarily cocaine base and hashish, firearms, ammunition and money.
How the Aragua Train, the primary transnational organized crime gang to function within the nation, prolonged its energy in Chile
“We are going to proceed working, we’re going to proceed visiting completely different locations to implement the regulation in these neighborhoods whose tranquility has been particularly affected by the exercise of organized crime gangs,” stated the National Prosecutor, Ángel Valencia, at a press level.
The detainees are 4 males of Venezuelan nationality and one individual of Chilean nationality, who have been delivered to justice.
EFE/Investigative Police
The operation, wherein greater than 250 law enforcement officials participated and which additionally included raids in numerous prisons within the nation, coincides with the trial that’s being carried out towards 38 members of Los Gallegos, a gang that’s thought of the operational arm of the Train of Aragua in Chile.
The defendants, a few of whom face life in jail, are accused of various crimes, similar to kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking for sexual exploitation, violations of the weapons regulation and homicides.
During the morning of this Thursday, no less than 4 courts in numerous areas of the nation have been evacuated because of bomb warnings, together with Arica, the place the mega-operation happened.
For some years now, Chile has been experiencing a rise in crime that has led the murder price to develop from 4.5 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018 to six.7 in 2022 and in recent times completely different worldwide gangs have settled within the nation.
However, Chile stays one of many most secure on the continent, however the feeling of insecurity continues to develop among the many inhabitants and crime has change into the best citizen concern, above the economic system.
EFE/Investigative Police
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