Overview
- Judge Fernando Pinos Guevara ordered preventive detention for eight defendants in the Florencio Varela triple femicides and directed the case to federal jurisdiction, with the Morón federal court to confirm competence.
- Prosecutors formally charged Joseph Freyser Cubas Zavaleta, known as “Señor J,” who denied any link to fellow suspects or the Peruvian group Los Pulpos, while investigators analyze a visitor logbook seized from his cell.
- Authorities report eleven people detained in the Varela case, including a suspect arrested in Peru, and three fugitives under Interpol red notices remain at large.
- Prosecutors frame the killings of Lara Gutiérrez, Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo within a dispute over a stolen cocaine shipment and pursue femicide and extreme cruelty aggravating factors.
- In Chaco, during jury selection for the Cecilia Strzyzowski femicide trial, defense lawyer Nicolás Boniardi Cabra was detained for allegedly filming jurors and his phone was seized for forensic review as selection interviews continue.