translated from Spanish: PDI arrested 7 people for use of firearms in “Narco Funeral”

This Friday, the minister of the Interior, Andrés Chadwick, reported that the PDI managed to arrest 7 people who manipulated firearms during the “narco funeral” of Bastian López in the commune of Conchalí. It was a civil police investigation in coordination with the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s office, after the shootouts recorded in mid-May during the wake of the 19-year-old boy who was murdered in front of his home. Chadwick explained that after paving a score of homes, the arrest of two women and five men, in addition to seizing weapons and drugs, according to the slogan BioBioChile. Two of the arrested, Jorge Cruz Pizarro and his son Cristofer Cruz de Paulo, have a police record for crimes such as robbery with intimidation, infringement of the law on weapons and drugs. Within the seized armament, 4 pistols were found, 2 rifles of compressed air, 3 rifles, 1 crossbow of hunting, 5 loaders for ammunition of different caliber, and 176 cartridges of different sizes. In addition, 700 grams of marijuana, 160 grams of cocaine base and 350 grams of cocaine hydrochloride, 800,000 pesos in cash, and money from different countries were seized. According to information from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, six of the seven detainees will be formalized this Friday in the second court of guarantee of Santiago.

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