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Arrests Link San Isidro Killing to ‘Banda del Millón’ as Night Raids and Shootings Intensify in Argentina and Peru

Seized phone chats are driving arrests, signaling organized coordination behind the latest attacks.

Overview

  • An 81-year-old, María Susana Rodríguez Iturriaga, was found bound and beaten to death in her San Isidro home days after the attack, according to investigators.
  • Authorities detained at least five suspects tied to the Banda del Millón, with phone messages referencing the victim’s death and searches extending to a Buenos Aires prison unit cited as a suspected planning hub.
  • In La Plata’s La Loma and Parque Castelli, multiple pre-dawn home invasions targeted elderly residents, including a 64-year-old and her 95-year-old mother held at gunpoint for nearly two hours and an 88-year-old robbed by masked intruders.
  • Police captured a 20-year-old wanted for the February murder of nurse Jonatan Nicolás Calderón in La Plata, accusing him of aggravated homicide and robbery after he allegedly struck an officer with a car during the arrest attempt.
  • In separate cases under investigation, a driver was shot dead in Breña, Lima, a Rosario shooting victim, Héctor Hugo González, died in hospital, a Santa Fe man was wounded in a motorcycle robbery, and two men were shot in Arequipa after resisting a theft.