Overview

• Lucas Tomás Sanche began serving an 18-year sentence after a Mar del Plata jury found him guilty of killing his aunt and wounding his father in a 2023 family dispute.
• Veracruz state police arrested five alleged members of a “gotas” ring accused of drug-facilitated robberies and charged them in the death of a CEAPP official.
• The Jalisco Attorney General’s office has identified the suspect in the July 12 femicide of Carla Bañuelos in Guadalajara and issued an arrest warrant for the alleged AR-15 gunman.
• Ertzaintza detained the third person accused of the unprovoked attack on a 68-year-old migrant in Torre Pacheco, and the Guardia Civil intercepted far-right groups traveling to fuel unrest.
• In Utiel, the Guardia Civil arrested a man suspected of stabbing another through the lung during a weekend altercation as forensic analysis moves forward.