2024-09-08 16:59:29
Yonni Hidalgo Blanco, known as Yonni Petare after the Caracas neighborhood where he grew up, was linked to the Tren de Aragua thanks to a tattoo.
The Venezuelan remains in preventive detention Yonni Petare, leader of the Aragua Train in Santiagowho was arrested by the Investigative Police (PDI) after being linked to the murder of five people last July in the commune of Lampa.
The capture of the subject, whose real name is Yonni Hidalgo Blancooccurred in a sector of downtown Santiago, after an initial police operation was frustrated because criminals tried to assault the detectives who were guarding the vicinity of the sector where the crime was supposed to be hidden, so the police officers used their weapons and shot the criminals dead.
Following the arrest of the person accused of being the leader of the Aragua Train in Santiago, civil police officers entered a residencewhich functioned as a torture center for the criminal group of Venezuelan originas revealed by T13.
What is known about Yonni Petare and his connection with the Aragua Train
During the formalization of the accused, the Prosecutor’s Office announced that Yonni Hidalgo Blanco, known as Yonni Petare for the Caracas neighborhood where he grew up, He recorded the crimes he committedand then send the videos via WhatsApp to the top management of the Aragua Train.
The subject was a regular user of social networks, where he showed the luxuries that surrounded him in his position as leader in the capital. There he exhibited watches, chains and clocks.
In addition, through the images he showed of the parties he attended, It was found that he has a tattoo of an AK-47 rifle, one of the symbols used by the criminal group to identify its members. In fact, one of the subgroups of the Tren de Aragua is called AK-47.
In addition to his alleged involvement in the Lampa massacre, Yonni Petare was recorded by a security camera when He was transporting the corpse of a Venezuelan citizen to a carwho died after being held captive in a house that functioned as a torture center.