TrujilloBolivia arrested Peru’s most-wanted extortion boss.
His capture is unlikely to slow extortion collected street by street.
The Pulpos run a family-based franchise collecting weekly fees from bus drivers and shopkeepers across Trujillo.
It is unclear who succeeds him; his father, the group’s founder, was freed in 2025.
How each outlet framed it
- InSight Crime
- successor inherited at 17 after father's 2013 imprisonment; arrest from joint FBI/DEA/Bolivian intel but 'promises to do little'
Sources: InSight Crime