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Mauricio Antonio Arriaza Chicas (16 December 1964 – 8 September 2024) was a Salvadoran police officer who served as the director of the National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador from 2019 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024.
On 8 September 2024, a Bell UH-1H helicopter operated by the Salvadoran Air Force that was flying from Choluteca in Honduras to San Salvador crashed in the Pasaquina municipality of La Unión Department, El Salvador. The crash killed all nine people on board, including Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, the head of the Salvadoran National Civil Police. [1]
The head of El Salvador's police forces and a man accused of a multi-million dollar embezzlement were killed when the military helicopter in which they were travelling crashed on Sunday night, the ...
8 September – Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, the head of the National Civil Police is killed along with a fraud suspect and seven others in a helicopter crash near Pasaquina. [12] 27 September – The US Peace Corps is deployed to El Salvador for the first time since being pulled out in 2016 due to gang violence. [13]
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's military says the national police director, other high-ranking police officials and a fugitive banker were among nine people killed in a military helicopter crash in a rural part of the country. The cause of the crash on Sunday night is under investigation.
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More than 5,000 soldiers and 500 police encircled a small town in northern El Salvador after President Nayib Bukele said Wednesday gang members had killed a member of the national police there.
A former national security adviser to El Salvador's government, who had accused a congressman from the ruling New Ideas party of corruption and drug trafficking, died in state custody in unclear ...