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Courts and Police Tighten Grip in Argentina and Peru as Violent-Crime Cases Advance

Fresh detentions, a restarted trial, expanded rewards signal a coordinated push to move stalled homicides toward court.

Overview

  • Peru’s Organized Crime Prosecutor won 36 months of preventive detention for Martina Hernández after a court revoked her house arrest for lack of supporting medical records.
  • Santino Ezequiel Piedrabuena, 19, was detained in La Plata as an accused shooter in the killing of Hugo Agustín González and will be taken to a first hearing as evidence is processed.
  • Raúl Pallares was formally imputated in the homicide of Emilse Camila Barrera in Frías, with prosecutors citing asphyxia by strangulation and the victim’s phone found hidden in his home; he declined to testify.
  • Police in Salta executed five raids in a ‘lesiones graves’ case, arresting six people with criminal records and seizing improvised firearms, knives, drugs, phones, and stolen motorcycles under judicial oversight.
  • Investigators in Peru are examining organized-crime motives in a Piura double homicide and a Huaycán bodega shooting, while Argentina’s MPA raised rewards to 16 million pesos to solicit decisive tips in eight unsolved killings.