'Carlitos Nike' found in Peruvian prison using false identity for killing of Chilean carabinero
Peru's National Police located two Venezuelan men implicated in the murder of corporal Daniel Palma, held in Aucallama under false names since 2025.
Two Venezuelans identified in Aucallama penal facility for homicide of Chilean carabinero
Peru's National Police (PNP) announced on Sunday that it had located Carlos Alexander Cortez Flores and Yefferson Jesús Flores Espinal—the former known as 'Carlitos Nike'—at Aucallama Penitentiary, where they had been held under false identities since 2025 for offences of extortive kidnapping, according to meganoticias.cl.
Both Venezuelan citizens were listed in prison records under the names Anderson Abraham Revestain Betancourt and Víctor Manuel Castro Hurtado. Their true identities were established through "fingerprint identification and information exchange with Interpol Caracas and Santiago", the PNP indicated.
The detection resulted from coordination between Interpol Santiago and Interpol Caracas. The Peruvian police additionally confirmed that the two accused individuals have Interpol Red Notices, requested by Chilean authorities "for offences linked to the homicide of a Chilean Carabineros officer".
Chile's Investigation Police (PDI), the Chilean representative of Interpol, stated that with this information "the necessary coordination will be carried out in order to materialise the extradition from Peru".
The crime that prompted the search took place on the night of 5 April 2023. First Corporal Daniel Palma attended to a procedure involving a shooting at the intersection of Avenida Matta with Arturo Prat, in central Santiago. While attempting to inspect a suspicious vehicle, one of its occupants shot him at close range in the head. Palma was transported to the ExPosta Central, where he died in the early morning of 6 April following surgical intervention.
The carabinero was posthumously promoted to senior non-commissioned officer and became the institution's 1,233rd martyr. At the time of his death, he was the father of a four-year-old child; his wife, also a Carabineros officer, was five months pregnant.
The homicide occurred just hours after the National Congress approved the Nain-Retamal Law, which expanded the powers in the use of firearms for Carabineros, PDI, Gendarmería and Armed Forces personnel in the exercise of their functions. The case shocked all of Chile.
Source: Google News PE — Crime