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Translated by Internationalist 360°
On Monday, the National Police presented members of terrorist groups that caused violent riots, robberies, tortures and murders throughout the country.
The weapons, ammunition and means of transport used by the criminals to commit the serious crimes against the Nicaraguan people were also presented .
Commissioner Luis Pérez Olivas, head of the Judicial Assistance Department (DAJ), presented 24 criminals, including 7 women, the weapons seized from the detainees and the arsenal they had in the facilities of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua UNAN- Managua.
He said that the breakdown of criminal gangs paid by right-wing putschists was carried out with Operation for Peace against sectors “interested in destabilizing our Government, economic and social stability through terrorist and criminal acts against people, public and private property as well as the emotional stability of the population.”
He added that the police had been receiving complaints from the population living in the surrounding sectors of the UNAN-Managua of hooded terrorists that illegally occupied the facilities of the Rubén Darío Campus of the UNAN, with their artisanal firearms, mortars, and Molotov cocktails .
The police chief presented an account of all the criminal activity that the terrorist elements launched from the university facilities, highlighting among other facts the murder of the citizen José David Oviedo, 27 years old, security guard killed with a firearm south of the UNAN on May 25.
He was robbed of his regulation weapon, a Ranger revolver, and his motorcycle marked Serpento with the plate M 133-023.
Police also received reports of theft and intimidation of security personnel from the US embassy, who were robbed of a Toyota 0207 CD plate, and two 9-millimeter Glock pistols. The criminals handed the vehicle over to a human rights organization.
The police also have complaints about the theft of motorcycles from citizens who were traveling around the university, as well as kidnappings and robberies with intimidation with firearms against residents, stripping them of their personal belongings.
On July 8 a white Toyota Cruiser plate M 067185 was intercepted at kilometer 24 of the road, in which four people were traveling. In the vehicle were found 125 grams of marijuana, a white weight, a 9-millimeter Glock pistol, a Pukara 38-caliber revolver with the series erased.
In this police action the subjects arrested were Francisco Javier Hernández Morales, 33 years old, alias “Pancho enano”; Carlos Manuel Murillo Alvarado, 37; Juan Carlos Cienfuegos Membreño, 33 and Ariel de Jesús Zavala Mora, 33 years old.
It was established in the investigation that Francisco Javier Hernández Morales dedicated himself to the distribution of drugs in the Rubén Darío Campus of the UNAN / Managua and Juan Carlos Cienfuegos worked as a cook for the subjects who had occupied the university. They also participated in the robbery with intimidation of officials of the US embassy where they stole the two pistols, which were found at the time of arrest.
Another operation carried out by the Police against terrorist crime was July 11, at the Puma de Nindirí gas station in front of the Sport Arena bar, where a blue Mazda, plate CZ 13224, registered to Manuel Antonio Fonseca Román was seized.
In this vehicle, were three items being transported to the city of Masaya including military equipment from the cathedral of Managua by a subject identified as “Fiesta”.
In the police operation Kevin Rodriguez Espinoza Gutiérrez, 21 years old, alias “Alcón” founder of the M19 movement, who participated in the taking of the UPOLI and the UNAN and together with Victor Cuadras, Lester Aleman and other elements in the planning of events criminals, terrorists and destabilizers with destruction, fires of state property and crimes against people was arrested.
He is also linked in the commission of criminal acts such as the looting and burning of Radio Ya and Caruna.
On June 22 it was learned that members of the gang “La Argentina” had left the UNAN with objects stolen from villagers by the gang led by a man known as Armando.
The National Police developed a plan with the arrest of the Argentina gang leader Miguel Ángel González alias “Monimbó” whose criminal records include the theft of collective transportation vehicles in Managua.
In addition, this delinquent is linked to the murder of US citizen Sixto Henry Vera, the torture of Marco Giovanni Pomares and the theft of a 9 mm caliber CZ pistol in his possession at the time of his arrest that was the property of the person who was killed.
A 38-caliber 9135 series revolver was also seized that, as of May 26, had been stolen from Cecilio José Dávila Valdez at the entrance to Jardines de Veracruz.
Other criminals arrested in the police operations are Miguel Ángel González García, alias “Monimbó”; Eddie Antonio Altamirano; Cristhoper Joel Moreno; Lenin Ariel Rojas Contreras, Ana Patricia Sánchez and Yolanda del Socorro Sánchez.
The head of the DAJ confirmed that the delinquent Edwin Antonio Altamirano alias “Tango” participated in the murder of police officers Marco Antonio Rosales Briceño and Jean Kerry Luna Gutiérrez occurred on June 11 in the San José Oriental neighborhood.
On July 14, a terrorist group leaves the UNAN / Managua facilities and conceals military supplies inside the Divina Misericordia church. In that place a caravan of vehicles is organized between them in which firearms are transported.
This caravan was organized and protected by authorities of the Catholic Church as “part of the activities of Catholic leaders who came giving protection to elements and to move them to the cathedral of Managua, in the blue Toyota Prado pickup truck plate M 185-381 where the weapons went. That truck is owned by Donald Antonio Castellón. ”
Irving Donaldo Escobar Ortíz, 29 years of age, is arrested in the vehicle’s capture; Blanca Lissette Cajina Urbina, 25 years old (Irving’s spouse); Cristhoper Stevens Morales, 21 years old, and David Salvador López Artola and Cristhopher Bravo, 18 years old.
To these subjects the police seized a Glock pistol with a magazine and 11 cartridges, a Remington rifle, a 22-millimeter rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun.
The commissioner clarified that the captured Remington rifle is a high precision weapon of long range and destructive power used by a sharp shooter since it has a telescopic sight.
Also on July 14, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, a hooded terrorist group with artillery firearms and mortars that were in the UNAN / Managua and that had intentions of taking over the UPOLI facilities was captured.
In the police action they were arrested Endrix Alenxander Jaktran, of 23 years; Albertina Valle Montenegro, 18; Irma Elizabeth Centeno Rivera, 19; Yuri Valerio Rivera, 20; Germán Antonio Martínez García, 29 years old and Erwing Josué Ramos Alemán, 27 years old.
These elements were in possession of a 22-gauge rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a 20-gauge shotgun.
That same day at 2 o’clock in the afternoon at the traffic lights of Puertezuelo a police patrol retained a red Nissan vehicle (which is in the facilities of the DAJ) that came from the UNAN with the same intentions of taking the UPOLI.
Randy Josué Martínez Gutiérrez, 19, was arrested along with Asxly Noguera Álvarez, 18 years old. They were in possession of a shotgun, a 22-gauge rifle and an artisan weapon.
Report of the UNAN
On July 16, María Esther Ramírez Cabrera, on behalf of the UNAN, filed a complaint with the DAJ regarding the seizure of the university facilities since May 8, where they caused damage to the installations and the burning of some facilities.
On July 15, the DAJ carried out an inspection at the university according to the established procedures “with the prior authorization of the university authorities.”
There the Police occupied 182 bombs for spear mortars, 20 black vests with metal plates, 7 caliber 12 shotguns, a Makarov pistol, 21 AK rifle cartridges, 15 AR15, 21 caliber 40 cartridges, ten caliber 22 cartridges, fifty 38 caliber cartridges, thirty nine weapons spells, a 30-30 rifle and two handmade bombs.
Police learned that the delinquents Francisco José Flores, 21, and Gerardo José López, 20, died in the vicinity of the barricades at the UNAN. Both are not registered as active university students.
At the end of the police chief said that with the aforementioned cases show that those who call themselves a peaceful, civic and democratic movement “are integrated by highly dangerous criminals.”
The illegal taking of the UNAN has served as a screen for criminal actions and the “participation of some representatives of the Catholic Church have coverered up criminal acts and facilitated the transportation of firearms, explosives and concealed terrorists and their criminal acts.”
