El Dorado prison in Bolívar intervenes
More than 3,000 officials from different State security agencies and members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) participated on Tuesday, November 5, in the taking over the El Dorado prison, in the state of Bolívaraccording to the Minister for the Penitentiary Service, Julio García Zerpa.
In a video shared on Instagram, the minister reported that two rifles, two shotguns and automatic weapons were seized, as well as more than 400 cell phones, satellite Internet antennas, routers, alcoholic beverages and a large cache of drugs.
El Dorado Prison was controlled by the Aragua Train and the Llano Train
García Zerpa indicated that Different groups of the El Tren de Aragua and El Tren del Llano gangs controlled the El Dorado prison, where there are three annexes.
He assured that the intention of these groups was to arm the inmate population of 1,400 prisoners to remove them from prisons and allegedly attack the Venezuelan civilian population, a complaint that the Minister of Interior Relations, Justice and Peace, Diosdado, had previously made. Hair.
During the intervention, which occurs a year after the government of Nicolás Maduro began operations of a similar nature in the country’s main prisons, They captured 17 Pranesaccording to the media Últimas Noticias.
Furthermore, the authorities allegedly They arrested three guards from the Ministry of Penitentiary Service for hiding cell phones that they rented to inmates, as well as three national guards for allowing a fragmentary grenade to enter the prison.
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