Authorities arrest suspects in Peru assassination and Mexico extortion cases

In Peru, authorities have taken several legal actions regarding violent crimes. In Sauce, two Venezuelan nationals, José Miguel Longa Turizo and Neiber Alejandro Funez Salazar, have been ordered into nine months of preventive detention. They are suspected of participating in the assassination of businessman Alex Aníbal Coronado de la Cruz at a commercial premises on September 23. Prosecutors are investigating them as co-authors of contract killing and illegal possession of a firearm.

In Mexico, the Fiscalía General de Yucatán arrested two individuals, José Esteban S. B. and Karen Odeth B. L., linked to an organization known as ‘La Concordia’. The pair is accused of aggravated extortion targeting merchants in Mérida. They are accused of demanding illegal payments that hindered local business operations and will remain in preventive detention while the legal process continues.