Elidio Espinoza (5 May 1955 – 3 April 2021) was a Peruvian politician and colonel, who served on the force of the

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Biography

To make money as a child, Espinoza worked as a street vendor before graduating from the Carlos Gutiérrez Noriega school. He moved to

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, where he studied at the Officers' School of the National Police of Peru. He became leader of the Emergency Squad Trujillo before joining the La Libertad Bar Association as a lawyer and earning a master's degree in research and teaching. He was married to Regina Prado, with whom he had three children: Regina Paola, María Claudia and, Carlos Elidio. In 2014, Espinoza and his wife, Regina, founded the Movimiento Regional para el Desarrollo con Seguridad y Honradez party. In 2014, he ran for Mayor of Trujillo as well as a seat on the

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. He was elected Mayor of Trujillo, serving from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2018. He also served as Vice-President of the from 2015 to 2016. The legal case against Espinoza's time as a policeman began in 2007 due to the abuse of authority to alleged criminals Víctor Enríquez Lozano, Carlos Mariños Ávila, Ronald Reyes Saavedra and Marco Quispe Gonzáles in October of that year in the El Porvenir District. He was acquitted on 27 December 2011, and he won appeals on 20 April 2012, 23 July 2013, 23 January 2014, and 20 October 2016, before its annulment on 28 August 2017. On 16 September 2019, the sentenced him and seven other policemen to 30 years in prison, as well as a payment of 100,000 soles to the families of those killed. Because he was not with other officers in the Superior Court, he denounced the sentence the following day in a press conference. However, his sentence was suspended until his death. Elidio Espinoza died of

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in La Esperanza on 3 April 2021 at the age of 65.

References

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