Angelo Andree Vilchez Cerna, Luis Rufino Guerrero Virhues, Rufino Juan Tarazona Vega, Adolfo Moreno Rojas and Jehiel Moreno Alejo had been arrested and transferred to prison, accused by the Public Ministry of having committed crimes of violence against the authority, by opposing the development of the functions of the members of the National Police.

They were arrested during a protest when the Police allegedly unjustifiably fired tear gas bombs at several hundred demonstrators protesting against the pollution caused by the Antamina mining company in the port of Huarmey on November 1, 2021. According to the defence lawyer, Mr. Rommel Colonia Quispe, the police took advantage of the panic of the people due to the effects of the gases and arrested the people who failed to flee the place and against whom they subsequently made the accusations indicated.

The Second Criminal Chamber of Appeals of Chimbote has revoked the preventive detention and ordered the immediate release as there was no sufficiency of evidence against the accused.