2024-09-04 00:51:33
The operation in Villa La Orquesta in La Pintana also sought to locate El Elvis, accused of the murder of six people, but still at large.
Con Five people were arrested, in addition to the seizure of drugs and ammunition The mega police operation in Villa La Orquesta, in the commune of La Pintana, ended, where around 200 police officers and a hundred detectives from the Investigative Police (PDI) arrived.
The police work included the search of at least 20 residences in the sector and had as its main purpose the arrest of a subject who is nicknamed as The Elviswho is accused of the murder of six people.
According to the statement made by the Metropolitan South regional prosecutor and ECOH coordinator, Héctor Barros, the residences raided were linked to said hitman, but He admitted that the suspect is not among those arrested..
In addition, the prosecutor confirmed that The five people arrested this morning in the mega operation will be brought before the courts so that their formalization hearings can be held on this same day.
Evaluating the police work, prosecutor Barros explained that “We are basically investigating homicides, drug and weapons trafficking.in a surgical procedure to arrest the perpetrators.”
Prosecutor of the mega operation in La Pintana spoke about the victims
On the other hand, the prosecutor Héctor Barros, stated that in the four homicides committed in that sector of the commune during the month of August, The victims were drug users who had come to buy the substances.
“It is important to note that all the recent homicides we have had here have been of drug users who have gone to drug dealing sites and have been attacked by other organizations and killed. In fact, none of these people lived in the commune of La Pintana.“, stressed the prosecutor who led the mega operation.
In addition, the prosecutor explained that the attack on clients by other drug traffickers sought to “avoid crowds at that location and customers buying elsewhere“.
After the operation, the presidential delegate of the Metropolitan Region, Gonzalo Durán, praised the police action and He confirmed that the people killed there had gone to buy drugs..
“What is behind this is a way of competing in the market, of give a signal to consumers that they should buy from this or that band. And in that sense, of course, the victims are mostly consumers,” said the regional authority.
“Ultimately, what we are dealing with is a dispute between criminal organizations dedicated to drug trafficking and what they are actually looking for is fight over territory, exercise control in the sector and, of course, in this way have a monopoly on the drug market.“, he added.
Police officers from the National Police participated in the mega police operation. OS7, the GOPE, Public Order Control and the Criminalistics Laboratory of Carabineros, as well as the Southern Homicide Brigade and the Tactical Reaction Brigade of the PDI.