Nearly 800 officials from different PDI brigades simultaneously raided 126 homes in more than 15 communes of Santiago, including San Bernardo, Estación Central and Cerrillos, an operation that in the latter focuses on the “Nuevo Amanecer” camp.
Preliminarily, the Western Prosecutor’s Office revealed that this Friday’s deployment is related to cases of crimes such as violation of drug and weapons laws, illicit association and money laundering.
“We are in the operational execution of different entry, search and seizure orders, issued by the Ninth Guarantee Court of Santiago in what is the constitution at the site of the event of the Western Prosecutor’s Office, to carry out on-site supervision of the professional police work,” commented the pursuer Patricio Rosas.
Attention remained on the capture of Cerrillos, since a caravan of regarding 50 PDI vehicles and heavily armed detectives, as well as drones and a helicopter, were monitoring “Nuevo Amanecer.”
Later, the head of the Western Prosecutor’s Office, Marcos Pastén, reported that there “an organized crime gang, called ‘Los Trinitarios’, is being investigated.” They are people of generally Dominican nationality, but with the participation of other nationalities as well,” which is also based in New York, Spain and England.
Specifically, the police are looking fore 13 individuals, who “occupied this territory of the occupation of Cerrillos as a drug collection and distribution center, but were also deployed in other communes of the capital, where they occupied front companies – barbershops and others – to disguise their illicit actions. , for money laundering and management of the money they were obtaining as a result of their crimes,” the prosecutor explained.
To the operation in Cerrillos too The national prosecutor, Ángel Valencia, joined in, who considered that this demonstrates that “there is no place in Chile that the State cannot enter to enforce the law.”
“It is possibly – if our memory serves us right – the largest procedure that has been carried out since the beginning of the Justice reform in the Metropolitan Region, considering the deployment of PDI resources,” stated the head ofl Public Ministry.
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