Peruvian police officers carried out raids on numerous properties across the country Wednesday, resulting in the arrest of 18 individuals as part of an investigation into illegal arms trafficking and its connection to last year's murder of an Ecuadorian presidential candidate.
During the "mega-operation," around 700 officers conducted raids on houses and offices in four districts of the capital Lima, as well as in the Tumbes, Cajamarca, and Piura regions along Peru's border with Ecuador, said Jorge Chavez, who heads the Peru prosecutor's office against organized crime.
