A group of alleged drug traffickers entered a residential complex dressed as agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) and prosecutors from the Public Ministry (MP) to execute a couple in San José Pinula. This is how the events occurred, according to the Police.
The surveillance cameras of the Hacienda Las Mercedes 1 residential complex, in San José Pinula, Guatemala, captured the moment when a white Nissan Frontier pick-up truck arrives at the checkpoint and shows an alleged search warrant.
The objective was to enter house number 17, block K, of that residential complex. The private security guards allowed the alleged MP prosecutors and PNC agents to enter.
“They wore insignia similar to those of the PNC and the MP, which allowed them to enter the residential complex,” the police report states.
Six people got out of the pick-up truck, including a woman wearing a vest similar to that of the MP, with the same initials visible on the back. The woman was accompanied by other people wearing uniforms similar to those of the Police.
The alleged agents knocked on the door of the house where José Aníbal Pérez Juárez, 39, and Mayra Nineth Lucas Urías de Pérez, 40, were located on May 1 at 6 a.m.
According to the first investigations, the attackers subdued and tied up the couple after entering the house and, after several minutes, they killed them.
The police report details that the man had a wound to the temple on the left side, while the woman had multiple wounds to her neck. Furthermore, both were tied with their hands behind them.
According to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif), both died from wounds caused by a firearm projectile.
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What was seized inside the property
Before 7 a.m., the alleged agents removed some items from the home and subsequently left the residence.
The record indicates that at 7:15 a.m. the police chief in charge of the San José Pinula Police Station alerted PNC investigators about two deceased people inside the building.
About 45 minutes after that call, MP prosecutors and PNC agents began processing the crime scene, where they located documents, 487 firearm cartridges, 24 hoppers, five hopper holders and 3,000 transparent plastic containers.
Link with drug dealing
Initial investigations indicate that Pérez Juárez and Lucas Urías had ties to a group of drug dealers that operates in the department of Guatemala.
Furthermore, the Police presume that the couple’s death resulted from a settling of accounts between members of that criminal structure.
“Based on the information collected in the processing of the scene, it is presumed that the victims belong to some organized crime group, who would have organized a settling of accounts,” the report details.
