Straight from fiction to real life, four police officers dressed as the Avengers, from the hit Marvel series, entered a dangerous neighborhood in Peru’s capital Lima over the weekend and arrested several wanted drug dealers.
The operation, dubbed “Marvel,” led to four officers dressed as superheroes (Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor and Black Widow) walking undercover on Saturday on a street in Lima’s San Juan de Lurigancho neighborhood.
The most bizarre of the day.
in #Perupolice disguise themselves as characters #miracle to catch a gang of narcos operating near a school.
He hicieron so as not to arouse suspicion and that the narcos thought it was a school activity pic.twitter.com/FQcHMTUwI— Almudena Ariza (@almuariza) Nov 1, 2022
Upon arriving at a nearby house, officers used equipment to break open a steel door, allowing 10 members of the police to enter and arrest three men and a woman. According to the police, the occupants initially thought it was a Halloween prank in surprise. “In this building, an entire family was microselling drugs, which would be sold in a nearby park,” Colonel David Villanueva said.
In the operation, police seized 3,250 small packets of basic cocaine paste – a crude extract of coca leaf – as well as 287 bags of cocaine and 127 bags of marijuana. A kilo of cocaine paste sells in Peru for about $380, while a kilo of cocaine hydrochloride, the purest form, sells for about a thousand.
Source: DN
