Overview

• Veracruz authorities arrested Víctor Manuel “N” and José Eduardo “N” after a joint federal-state raid in Álamo Temapache for the kidnapping and murder of taxista Irma Hernández Cruz, seizing vehicles, firearms, ammunition, cash and narcotics.
• Investigators in Mar del Plata detained Alan Díaz, charging him with aggravated homicide in the July 21 killing of albañil Matheo Bonifacio Sánchez, based on security footage, forensic evidence and a witness statement, while his accomplice remains at large.
• An auxiliary officer of the Argentine Federal Police shot dead one of four motochorros on July 25 in Ramos Mejía during an attempted vehicle robbery, with the other suspects fleeing the scene.
• Residents and a colectivo driver intercepted and held two motorcycle robbers who had just assaulted a greengrocer in Greater Buenos Aires on July 24, leaving one suspect hospitalized with a skull fracture.
• Prosecutors in Río Negro located the buried body of Eduardo Fuentes on July 25, who had been missing since June 20, and detained the farm owner on suspicion of fatally shooting him over a pig-ownership dispute.