Hassen Coy, prosecutor of the Special Transnational Anti -Pandillas Unit of the Public Ministry (MP), confirmed that the resurgence of the pandilla called was identified Breake Dance 33 either BKS 33.
He added that, together with the Transnational Anti -Pandilla Center of the National Civil Police (PNC), they managed to identify how the band currently operates again in Guatemala City.
“It is a recent event, has been under investigation for some years and will continue to investigate in order to establish what is the way of operating this gang,” he argued.
The prosecutor commented that they still investigate the BKS 33 gang to determine how they operate and what crimes they commit.
He added that during the raids of April 28 they captured three people and seized weapons, money and drugs. In addition, he pointed out that the investigations continue to establish whether seized cash is the product of extortion.
“To know a little more, the support of the population is also needed. They can make their complaints through the different MP channels to be able to establish whether they are already being dedicated to other types of illicit,” said the prosecutor.
The Ministry of the Interior (Mingob), on the other hand, reported that the Q2,226 seized possibly come from the sale of retail drugs.
Are they deported?
The MP said that they have not yet been able to determine if the BKS 33 gang is made up of deported Guatemalans, but indicated that they identified pints in walls of the La Reinita neighborhood, zone 6 capital, with the letters “LA – BKS – 33”.
Coy said that possibly that gang could be operating in other municipalities of the department of Guatemala, although he still did not specify the places.
“It is again resurfaceing, possibly not with the same people or with the same ideology. Then, for now we cannot say if it is the same, if you have new members or if they continue with the same line they had in the eighties and ninety years,” said the prosecutor.
According to the Mingob, the “Breake Dance 33 BKS 33” click was one of the first criminal gangs that began operating in Guatemala and then integrated into the gang of neighborhood 18.
The records of the National Division against the Criminal Development of the gangs indicate that this criminal structure had disappeared after escaping from justice to the United States.