Juan Manuel Bocanegra Henriquez23 years old, was released after being detained for 15 days for his alleged connection with the kidnapping of the mining businessman Jenss Lara Tantaquilla and the murder of his four companions in Trujillo. The measure was adopted after the legal deadline for preliminary proceedings had expired, according to the information provided about the case.
Juan Manuel Bocanegra Henriquez23 years old, was released after being detained for 15 days for his alleged connection with the kidnapping of the mining businessman Jenss Lara Tantaquilla and the murder of his four companions in Trujillo. The measure was adopted after the legal deadline for preliminary proceedings had expired, according to the information provided about the case.
The decision to grant him freedom at this stage would respond to the fact that the authorities did not find sufficient elements of conviction to prove his direct participation in the execution of the kidnapping and the multiple crime. Bocanegra abandoned the facilities of the Criminal Investigation Division (Divincri).
Juan Manuel Bocanegra is released after 15 days of detention. (Photo: Facebook / Piura News)
The release occurred after claims made by his relatives outside the police station. From the beginning of the arrest, they maintained that the young people did not participate in the attack and that they were sleeping in their home when the crime occurred.
Juan Manuel Bocanegra had undergone surgery at the beginning of September along with his younger brother, Roy Stiven Bocanegra Marreros, 22 years oldand his father, Roy Peter Bocanegra Aguilarknown as “Old”. At that moment, the National Police He identified the three as alleged members of the group that would have provided logistical support to the false police officers involved in the crime.
One of the elements considered during the interventions was the location of a car Black Suzuki, plate T3X-310in the Torres Araujo urbanization. According to police investigations, the vehicle would have been used to transport weapons, helmets and vests with insignia of the Special Group against Organized Crime (GRECCO), clothing that the criminals would have used to simulate an interdiction operation.
The statement of Roy Peter Bocanegra is also part of the proceedings of the case. After being arrested in the province of Pataz, the man would have acknowledged his participation in the logistical transfer and, according to the PNP general Ricardo Espinoza Cuestashead of the La Libertad Police Region, sought to separate his children from the events.
Espinoza pointed out that Bocanegra assumed his participation before the agents and declared: “I am the criminal, my children are not”.
With the release of Juan Manuel Bocanegra, his father and younger brother remain at the disposal of the authorities while investigations related to the kidnapping of Jenss Lara and the murder of his four companions continue.
