Nicaragua’s National Police detained 29 people for dangerous crimes across the country between 30 September and 6 October 2024.[1] Seven of them were arrested for drug trafficking in districts of Managua, identified as Milton Alejandro López Mercado, Pedro Jacobo Mercado Dávila, José Campos Salazar, Jaime Aguilar Arteaga, José Canales Aguilar, Cristopher Salvador Avendaño and Gabriel Antonio Escoto Espinoza.[1] Commissioner General Jaime Vanegas, the police inspector general, announced the weekly results to the Nicaraguan people.[1]
In the Managua cases police seized 20 pounds of marijuana, along with 4 kilograms and 894 grams of cocaine, a car and a motorcycle.[1] In Kukra Hill police captured Héctor Hebberth López for drug trafficking with 26 pounds of marijuana, while in Quilalí, Nueva Segovia, Carlos Javier Quintero López was arrested with two pounds of marijuana.[2] In Jinotega police captured Maynor Joel Balladares López in Pantasma and Santos Moisés Pineda Pravia in San José de Bocay with 6 pounds of marijuana and 1 motorcycle, while in Quilalí Carlos Javier Quintero López was detained with 2 pounds of marijuana.[1]
Two other people detained in Bluefields, Eliud Omar Alvarado Ballesteros and Jorvin Alberto Fajardo Martínez, had only 301.4 grams of cocaine seized from them, which is not counted in the cannabis total.[1] Canal 2 corroborated the same 30 September to 6 October operation as 29 arrests for homicide, robbery with intimidation and drug trafficking under the citizen-security plan.[3]
