Overview
- PFA investigators testified this week in the federal trial in Corrientes that the five-year-old boy Loan Danilo Peña was taken from the area near his grandmother’s home and that hypotheses of trafficking or narco‑revenge lack supporting signs.
- Investigators described physical leads including dents and traces of human blood on the right front wheel of the suspects’ pickup and said the vehicle was washed the same afternoon of the disappearance.
- Digital forensics cited erased data and a period of phone inactivity for key accused between 14:30 and 15:30 on June 13, 2024, details that investigators said help map movements but do not fully reconstruct events.
- PFA witnesses acknowledged procedural failures that could weaken evidence, noting a phone was handed to federal experts without a proper chain of custody and that local containment operations were delayed early in the inquiry.
- Parallel developments: an Argentine consultant, Fernando Cerimedo, remains detained in Bolivia with his precautionary hearing postponed after an emotional court transfer, and media figure Zulma Lobato has been rehoused in Tandil and says the funds raised for her eye surgery remain in her sole control.