Prosecutor's Office ordered 35 years in prison for accused of killing and dismembering two young men in a hostel

The Public Ministry asked for 35 years in prison against Venezuelan citizens Alberto Perozo Borja, alias' Joker ', and Angelbert Alejandro Díaz Colina, alias 'Alejandro Tarra', for the murder and dismemberment of Jafet Caleb Torrico and Rubén Matamoros Delgado, in a hostel in the district of San Martin de Porres, in 2019.

The provision was requested by the prosecutor Luis Chauca, who charged the two alleged murderers with the crimes of qualified homicide and criminal gang; and civil reparation of S/ 60 000 for the bereaved of the victims.

The lawyer also asked that the defendants be deported when they serve the sentence imposed by Peruvian law.

The criminal charge was formalized by the prosecutor before the First Transitional Collegiate Criminal Court of Lima Norte on Thursday, 21, the day of the oral trial against Venezuelan citizens, who are in preventive detention in Ancon I because of this case.

For the others involved in the crime, Jhonatan Jesús Donayre Semprún, who is under arrest warrant at the national level, was declared guilty contumaz (fugitive from justice); and Freddy Xavier Sulbaran, alias' Machelo ', who is in the process of extradition from Colombia.

During the trial, Jafet Caleb Torrico's relatives constituted themselves as a civil actor and applied to the court for the sum of 2 million 140 thousand soles in civil reparation.

THE CASE

On Monday, September 9, 2019, the quartered remains of Jafet Caleb Torrico and Rubén Matamoros Delgado were found in different districts of metropolitan Lima such as San Martín de Porres and Rimac, which had been wrapped in sheets from the Señor de Sipán hostel, in San Martín de Porres.

Perozo Borja and Diaz Colina were captured a week later in Tumbes and San Martín de Porres, respectively. The first told the Peruvian National Police (PNP) about his involvement in the crime and explained that it had all been due to a debt of drug sales.

“I was hired by 'Machelo', he was the one I knew, to take the bodies from above and put them in the taxi and that's it. Then he gave me marijuana to sell. We took the bodies to Fiori (to the others) Machelo hired them, I didn't know them,” said the also known as 'Joker'.

He said that 'Machelo' had given Matamoros Delgado 50 packs of S/10 each to sell, but the victim never gave the money. About the murder of Caleb Torrico, he mentioned that it happened because he was a friend of the Venezuelan citizen.

“(The crime was given) for a drug because they never gave the money for the drug. They gave him 50 packs of 10 and he never said anything about the packages. What happens is that I heard that he was a friend of the Venezuelan,” he said.

After two weeks of the discovery, the Peruvian National Police confirmed the dismantling of a criminal organization dedicated to drug sales and prostitution involving at least 12 Venezuelan citizens.

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