They capture remnants of gangs in different areas of the country

Law enforcement continues to remove gang remnants from the streets that remained hidden from patrols so as not to be arrested.

The Police relied on intelligence work and together with the Armed Forces they managed to make operations more precise to find the whereabouts of these criminals, which is how they recently arrested Wilber Amílcar Melgar Echeverría, nicknamed Willy, Plante or Poison, profiled as member of gang 18 who commits crimes in the El Guayabal neighborhood, in Quezaltepeque, La Libertad.

Investigations determined that alias Poison has a criminal history since 2005 for illicit groups, extortion, aggravated robbery and resistance. In addition, she was in charge of monitoring the entry of police and soldiers into the area, as well as people from outside the area.

In 2008 he was sentenced to four years in prison for extortion and illicit groups, but due to the soft laws of that time, after serving his sentence he was freed to continue committing crimes.

The institution also reported the arrest of Matías Alfonso Peraza Pérez, alias Blacky, a member of 18, who remained hidden in the Altavista neighborhood, in San Martín, where he was intercepted.

«The death of innocent Salvadorans weighs on his hands, in addition to thousands of threats demanding a dollar from the inhabitants for leaving their vehicles in the common parking lot, he intimidated them saying that he was not responsible for damages and whoever did not pay punctured their tires, “He broke mirrors, etc.,” the Police reported.

The search for criminals allowed the authorities to locate Graciela Elizabeth Domínguez Martínez, alias Chela, a member of the 18 gang, who has a history (2015) of terrorist organizations and resistance. The woman is accused of extorting merchants from the Zacatecoluca market, La Paz, where she also sold drugs to finance the terrorist group.

During an interview for “Diario El Salvador”, the Minister of Justice and Security, Gustavo Villatoro, explained that the remnants of terrorist groups remained “like cells working in the territory.”

The official commented that for the offensive against the remnants of gangs it was necessary to have “100% of our Armed Forces and National Civil Police capacity (which) is deployed nationwide to capture all these strongholds of these terrorist organizations that still remain.” in the territory.

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