Gang warfare moves into upscale neighborhoods
Gang warfare has extended its reach from the red areas to sectors like Costa del Este, Clayton, and San Francisco where no crime boss is safe from summary execution.
Public Ministry (MP) investigators who deal with organized crime issues say “They get economic resources from drugs and try to hide in exclusive areas to simulate a decent life,” e.
But their rivals, with their information networks, locate them and are capable of executing them anywhere. No one is safe, not even the neighbors.
The authorities believe that the shooting of Juan David Peláez Guzmán in the PH Diamond Tower, in San Francisco, in September fits this profile. Police found11 packages of drugs in his apartment
A little earlier, on August 28, Ovidio Omar Castro, alias Tulip, known by the police as the “capo de Nuevo Veranillo” was assassinated in Multiplaza parking lots. He appeared on the payroll of the Mayor’s Office of San Miguelito.
The day before, the shooting murder of Alexander Ricardo García Vergara was reported on Calle 70 in San Francisco. His executioners surprised them while having a beer in a Lebanese restaurant.
The modality is not new. In March 2015, Eduardo Macea, alias Marshall, who was staying in an apartment on Naos Island, valued at about $500,000, was captured. A month later, the authorities apprehended Juan Vicente Blandford White, alias El Patron Juancito, in a residential area in Clayton. Both were wanted crimes of gang activity and drug trafficking.
On Saturday, September 4, while the Minister of Security Juan Pino, accompanied by the director of the National Police, John Dornheim, the deputy director Simón Henríquez and the director of the National Aeronaval Service, Jeremías Urieta, participated in an operation against crime organized in Patio Pinel in El Chorrillo and San Miguel in Calidonia, another case shook the capital.
In broad daylight on the Fernández de Córdoba road, near Vía España, unknown persons unloaded a burst of bullets at a truck in which two men were traveling killing one leaving the other critically injured.
