Peru expels to Chile a Venezuelan suspected of participating in quintuple murder

A Venezuelan citizen was expelled from Peru on Thursday in a police plane heading to Chile, where he is wanted for his alleged participation in the murder of five people in July, Peruvian police reported.

Ángel Ramón García Hernández, 33 years old and considered by the police to be a member of the transnational organization Tren de Aragua, was handcuffed and wearing a red suit with the word “detained.”

“It has immigration records of entry in 2018 on a regular basis, but many people outside the law go out irregularly to commit crimes in other countries and enter again without having registered,” said General Marco Conde, director of criminal investigation of the Peruvian police

Before the departure of the police plane, Conde told the press that “that is why he would have committed the crime in July of this year, this homicide of five citizens, four men and one woman, inside a premises at a party.” in the municipality of Lampa, in the north of the Chilean capital.

Peruvian police arrested García Hernández on Tuesday night in an area north of Lima where he worked as a barber in a hair salon and had two homes. After knowing his real identification, it was found that he had an international arrest warrant issued by Chile.

The chief of homicides, Colonel Ricardo Espinoza, told the press on Wednesday that photographs of the Venezuelan with firearms, abundant Chilean peso bills and at least one video were found on his cell phone showing an alleged murder on behalf of a person that would have been committed in Chile.

The murder of the five people—four Venezuelans and a Dominican—occurred on July 16 during a party and shocked Chile. Chilean President Gabriel Boric then indicated that his administration was working to “clip the wings of organized crime, following the route of money, confiscating its assets and dealing different blows and recovering public or private spaces that have been taken over by these gangs.”

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