The extraditable alias “El Boludo” from Los Amets, according to preliminary investigations, was in the village of El Rico at the time of the shooting.

A preliminary investigation by the National Civil Police (MP) revealed that Victor Francisco Gallegos Gallardo, 27, alias “El Boludo” or “El Toronto” was in the finals of the El Rico Village Christmas Championship on December 31, 2023 and opened fire. The gun was done by a dozen others.

According to a preliminary investigation by PNC’s Anti-Narcotics Subdirectorate, Gallegos Gallardo “fired a 9 millimeter caliber pistol to celebrate the goal of the Plains de Santa Rosa team, which beat Los Amets 4-2.” The Ministry of Public Affairs (MP) reported that “there is currently no line of inquiry by which to hold the extraditable Gallegos Mayorga accountable.”

After identification using specific methods and analysis of videos circulating on social networks, it was determined that Gallegos Gallardo was present at the game and had an arrest warrant for extradition purposes to the United States, which investigated him for crimes. Drug trafficking.

According to the PNC and the Public Ministry (MP), the soccer game is being investigated to determine if more subjects are involved in the transfer of narcotics entering from Honduras and coming from South America.

This is the first capture in 2024 at Los Emets, Isabel, and adds to others in 2021 and 2023.

Gallegos Gallardo was born in Puerto Barrios on July 24, 1996, and according to investigations, traveled to Izabal and several adjacent municipalities in Honduras to transport drugs to the north and west of Guatemala.

Izabal, among the most violent

“It is no man’s land,” said a local official source who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of speaking out about drug trafficking and organized crime in Izabal. According to official figures, five of its municipalities have been hit by a crime wave that worsened in 2023.

The five municipalities, he explains, each experience similar problems, including land disputes, illegal exploitation of jade and irregular migration using the areas. The border with Honduras continues past Guatemala and into Mexico and the United States.

Walter Menchu, an analyst at the Center for National Research and Studies (CIEN), explained that until December 2023, “Izabal was the department that saw the highest increase in homicides compared to 2022.”

Regarding the rate per 100 thousand inhabitants, Menchu ​​expresses, in 2022 Izabal was the fourth department with the highest number of murders. “It was 31.6 per 100 thousand inhabitants,” he explains.

“The first three divisions that year were Escuntla (43), Guatemala (36.2) and Chiquimula (35.9),” he says.

Other returnable

One of the first people arrested in 2021 was William Adelmo Chacon Rios, 41. aka the cartridge. The subject, born in Los Amets, was arrested on February 27 of that year.

This happened at kilometer 2020 of the route of the Atlantic, in the jurisdiction of the village of Rio Blanco, Los Amets, Izabal. The US also requested him for drug trafficking.

The second arrested with an extradition request was Donal Roberto Osorio Pineda and it was done on March 20, 2021 inside the parking lot of the Los Amets Municipal Market. He accepted his extradition in April and was transferred to the United States that September. In the same year..

Juan Carlos Chacon Alvarado, aka poison43 years old, was arrested on April 17, 2021 by agents of the General Subdirectorate of Anti-Narcotics Information Analysis (SGAIA) of the PNC and elements of the Army in the village of Las Vinas, Los Amets.

He was arrested on August 26 Daniel Valdez Leyva, 38, aka Ford 4×4, in Los Amets. He is a native of the municipality where he was arrested.

On December 20, 2021, seized by law enforcement WALTER ALFREDO GALLEGOS ORELLANA, 30, aka Rancharito. This guy is also originally from Los Emets.

On August 10, 2022, Jose Manuel Pineda Martinez, 29, aka SR5, was apprehended for extradition purposes, wanted by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for drug trafficking links.

The arrest was made in the village of Chapulquito, Los Amets, Izabal. Pineda Martinez was extradited to the United States on April 24, 2023.

In 2023, no one was apprehended for extradition purposes and this did not happen for the first time until 2024.

It is the second in the national territory. The first was Luis Enrique Ruiz Morales, 38, aka insanityOn January 3, 2024, on a street in Cecatepecquiz, Antigua Guatemala, he was arrested for an extradition request required by the United States on drug trafficking charges.

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