On Friday, five Venezuelan people who planned to rob a bank in Lima were captured by the Peruvian Police. The men were seized a grenade, firearms, sketch of the bank, balaclava, and a stolen vehicle in Villa Salvador, Peru. The criminals were identified as Maikel José Yepez Macayo (22), José Rafael Zorrilla Velásquez (30), Luis José Marcano García (23), Víctor Manuel Rivero Vásquez (18) and Manuel Eduardo Ruiz Balbuena (27), who have criminal records in Venezuela. After a job of intelligence and monitoring the agents of the Robbery Division surprised the Venezuelan citizens at 3:20 P.M. in the food court of the Plaza Norte shopping center when they had lunch. Noticing the presence of the police, the quintet tried to flee but was quickly neutralized. The Interior Minister, Mauro Medina, reported will be expelled from the country. "It is a criminal gang of 5 foreign citizens who had purposely arrived in the country with the purpose of committing illegal crimes in various places in Lima" ... "Of course they have to be expelled but first they have to serve their sentence in our country, the criminal part is privileged to the administrative issue. First they fulfill their sentence and then they will be expelled, "he said.
Venezuelans detained in Peru belong to the "Tren de Aragua". To date, there are 72 Venezuelan prisoners in various prisons in Peru, of which 28 are for crimes against property (robbery, extortion, fraud).
