2024-04-12 04:35:08
More than 800 PDI officials are deployed in 17 communes of the Metropolitan Region.
Nearly 800 officials of the Investigative Police (PDI) They are deployed in a massive operation in 17 communes of the Metropolitan Region, among which are Estación Central, specifically in the sector of Little Caracasand Cerrillos, in the shot known as New Dawn.
The director of the PDI arrived at the latter, Eduardo Cerna Lozanotogether with the national prosecutor, Angel Valenciawho arrived to supervise the police procedure.
According to the Western Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the operation is carried out as a result of crimes related to weapons and drugs. In this sense, the PDI is searching for the criminal gang The Trinitarianswhose members would come from the Dominican Republic.
The details of the PDI operation in Cerrillos and Estación Central
“There is no place in the territory of the Republic where the State cannot enter to impose the law,” the national prosecutor began by saying. Angel Valencia.
In this sense, he stressed that it is one of the many efforts they will continue to make. “It is symbolic and it is very important, that is why we have come with the director of the PDI,” he explained.
“It is the procedure largest that has become since the beginning of the justice reform in the Metropolitan Region“said Ángel Valencia.
For his part, the director of the PDI, Eduardo Cerna, said: “There are more than 120 entry and search warrants which was processed by the Public Ministry until the Ninth Guarantee Court of Santiago. “There is a whole investigated process behind it, from the point of collecting evidence.”
With respect to the criminal group that is being investigated, the Western regional prosecutor, Marcos Pasten I declare that “The main investigation is an organized crime gang, called Los Trinitarios.”
The members of said organization would be “people of generally Dominican nationality, but with the participation of other nationalities as well.”
At a general level, the pursuer said: “Around 126 homes were entered in more than 15 communes in the region”where various crimes are investigated such as money laundering, drug trafficking and violations of the gun control law.
Regarding the operation at Central Station, the police officers are carrying out preventive identity checks on the inhabitants of the sector known as Little Caracasas well as the administrators of various locations.
In that sector they are also looking for members of criminal gangs.