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- Eight-year-old boy with autism dies from police bullet in Huacho: mother denounces police abandonment
- Purchase of 31,000 pistols for Peru's national police under suspicion of overpricing and lack of public procurement
- Police officer runs down and kills elderly man in Comas on way to medical appointment
- Gunmen on motorcycle kill motorcycle taxi driver with 14 shots in San Juan de Miraflores
- Lima police officer shot by unknown assailants in Ayacucho
- Ariel Fefer returns to Peru and launches podcast to find mastermind behind his mother's murder
- Police detain three suspects in murder of Translima driver in Carabayllo
- Santa Catalina company suspends service after driver killed in Villa El Salvador
- Transport security guard executed in Lima by gunmen who return to attack witness
- Man arrested for killing PNP officer in illegal bar in Cercado de Lima
- Robbers steal 52,000 soles from money changer in central Lima; three fugitives remain at large
- Former police officer arrested after repeatedly robbing neighbourhood shops in north Lima
- Joint operation dismantles drug-trafficking networks in South Lima
- Regional governor of Tumbes detained in major operation against money laundering
- Five arrested after dismantling of extortion gang in capital's southern zone
- Peru: Police officers disguised as mascots arrested a drug trafficker
- Drug raid in Lima: Police officers disguised as World Cup mascots arrest dealer
- Peru police disguised as World Cup mascots capture alleged drug trafficker in Lima
- Drug trafficker arrested in Lima by officers dressed as World Cup mascots
- Peruvian police arrest drug trafficker disguised as World Cup mascots
- Lima police conduct drug raid disguised as World Cup mascots
- Peruvian police arrested drug trafficker disguised as World Cup mascots
- Peruvian officers dressed as World Cup mascots arrested suspected drug dealer
- Peruvian police detain drug trafficker disguised as 2026 World Cup mascot
- Peruvian prosecutors seek preventive detention for eight soldiers over death of five civilians in Huancavelica
- Reckless homicide in Lima: mother sentenced for leaving sick son alone who died
- Foreign national shot dead with 16 bullets on Jirón Angaraes, Cercado de Lima
- BTS concerts in Lima: National Police activate virtual patrols against ticket fraud
- Man linked to La Federación criminal gang arrested over extortion in Lima
- Alleged leadership of 'Los Mexicanos' arrested, gang that extorted transport companies in Lima
- Venezuelan shot dead in Plaza San Martín in front of his partner and daughter
- 17-year-old arrested after attempting to set minibus on fire in Cercado de Lima for S/100
- Candidate Roberto Sánchez denies link to man under investigation for drug trafficking in Trujillo
- Abencia Meza condemned to 30 years for inciting murder of ex-partner in Lima
- Four family members shot dead in Sullana, including a 15-year-old boy
- 21-year-old killed after being pursued in San Juan de Lurigancho
- Minibus driver murdered in Lima's Cercado district after refusing to pay 3-sol extortion fees
- "The Grave Robbers of Los Olivos" gang falls in Carabayllo with over 100 stolen mobile phones
- Police officer sentenced to one year in prison for attempted extortion in East Lima
- Nine police officers from Vitarte detained for illegal collections on Central Highway
- Two police officers shot outside polling station in San Juan de Miraflores
- Hackers breach Sismate and launch false alert of 8.7 earthquake and tsunami in Peru
- East Lima Flagrancy Court orders detention for computer fraud
- Man arrested in Lima over child's death and woman's disappearance in Tarapoto
- UN experts warn Peruvian Constitutional Court: crimes against humanity do not expire
- Two Ecuadorians detained for murder of university student stabbed in Cercado de Lima