More than 100 agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) mobilized this April 10 to the Pavón prison to support the guards of the prison system and take control of the prison.
The PNC indicated that, preliminarily, there is knowledge of an injured inmate during the fight within the prison located in the prison complex in Fraijanes, Guatemala.
The authorities of the penitentiary system confirmed a riot in Pavón and pointed out that those deprived of liberty could be armed. Until 11.20 hours, the SP and the PNC guards still did not have control of the center.
The PNC Police Station reported that the injured person was in sector 5 and that his companions did not allow the entry of the police. After the operation, the inmate was transferred to the General San Juan de Dios Hospital.
“A group of police officers was mobilized to support SP and resume control,” said Edwin Monroy, spokesman for the PNC.
According to the Public Ministry, Pavón is one of the five prisons from which more extortion calls are generated, and investigations show that there are imitators structures in that center.
He added that, in 2024, approximately 64 thousand 717 extortion calls left prison centers. The MP statistics show that the greatest amount of those calls were made from the penalties of Pavón, Pavoncito, Fraijanes, Cantel and the Canada farm.
On December 19, 2019, the PNC announced the transfer of two inmates of high danger to the maximum security prison renewal 1, for being alleged leaders of an extortionist structure that operated from Pavón.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, the prisoners Jefry Antonio James Morales, known as Ploky, and Ronal Isaac Luna Cano, aka the THIEF, are alleged leaders of an extortion structure in the Farm Rehabilitation Model Pavón, in Fraijanes.
Both deprived of liberty were sentenced for the crimes of homicide, murder and riot of prisoners.
He added that, after the analysis carried out by the General Sub -Directorate of Criminal Investigation (SGIC) of the PNC, it was determined that both are former members of the 18th neighborhood gang.
Murder in Pavón
In an area of asylum that measures less than 9 square meters, next to the hospital that is within the farm of rehabilitation Canada, Escuintla, those deprived of liberty Maher Moisés Montenegro Cardona, 31, were held; Paulino Manuel Osorio Rumó, 30 and Pedro Arnoldo Chamorro Velásquez, 31.
During the early hours of Tuesday, January 4, the SP guards located Montenegro Cardona, who was the alleged responsible for the death of Captain Byron Lima.
The inmate was waiting to face a trial, which would initiate on May 5, 2026, in charge of the Court of Greater Risk C. In the case there are another 13 involved.
The SP personnel indicated that Montenegro had several white weapon wounds in different parts of the body.
The PNC reported that Montenegro was imprisoned since August 11, 2016 for the crimes of serious injury, resistance with specific aggravation and its own cover -up.