The authorities of the General Directorate of the Penitentiary System (DGSP) reported that they have suspended visits in the renewal prison 1, located in Escuintla, after several inmates were Mutininaren To demand privileges.
As detailed by the DGSP authorities, no prisoner will receive visits until new notice.
According to Francisco Jiménez, Minister of the Interior, those deprived of liberty took their own visits hostage.
“They demand benefits that they lost when they decided to extort, intimidate and violate the Guatemalans,” said the official.
The penitentiary system said that, after the riot, a personal exhibition resource was presented in favor of the visits that were taken as hostages.
Who are held in renewal 1?
At least 11 Criminal structures leaderswhich operated from the country’s penalties with their accomplices, were transferred to the renewal prison 1 in November 2024.
Edwin Enrique Granja Lobosaka El Parce, 49; Ronald Isaac Luna Cano, aka Thief, 37, and Rigoberto Antonio Morales Barrientos, aka rigorrico59, were held in different prison centers, but shared a common role: they operated structures of kidnappers, extortionists and imitators.
Documents to which he had access Free press They indicate that Luna Cano, the THIEF, has a history of illegal detention, prisoners, murder, plagiarism and kidnapping. In addition, it is one of the leaders of the extortionists called imitators, who operated on the Pavón criminal farm and was a member of the 18th neighborhood.
The investigations detail that Luna Cano and a group of inmates made extortion calls from that prison center.
For its part, farm Lobos, El Parce, coordinated a band of extortionists from the Matamoros prison. He was imprisoned for murder, attempted homicide and illegal carrying of a firearm.
The inquiries report that the Parce is head of a band of imitators of former integrants of the Mara Salvatrucha and their way of operating was to send messages to cheat citizens.
Farm Lobos escaped on July 18, 2022 of the Pavoncito prison center, in Fraijanes, taking advantage of a medical appointment at the San Juan de Dios General Hospital.
According to the PNC on that occasion, Granja Lobos was rescued by strongly armed individuals, who took him by force.
He is also responsible for shooting against PNC agents on August 27, 2022, when they made police prevention tours.
The Public Ministry indicates that on September 18, 2024 he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the violent death of Loren Damayanti Soyos Sicajau, in a hotel located in the La Florida neighborhood, zone 19 of the city of Guatemala.
Rigorrico
Another of the inmates who wears orange uniform in renewal 1 is Rigoberto Antonio Morales Barrientos, aka rigorrico. Despite being arrested for 26 years, he continues to advise criminal structures dedicated to kidnapping and extortion, the documents affirm.
Although it is in prison, Morales Barrientos “advisor” to groups of criminals to kidnap people. The investigations determined that, through text messages or telephone calls, it intervenes in rescue negotiations.
Morales Barrientos was a member for more than a decade of the disappeared guardian of the Treasury, a civil police body under the jurisdiction of the National Police.
After the peace agreements, he led the criminal band August Black. He remains in prison since 1998, although he escaped twice: in May of that year, but he was recaptured eight months later in Quetzaltenango; And in June 2001, together with 77 inmates from the maximum security prison, in Escuintla.