Overview

• Lázaro Víctor Sotacuro was detained in Villazón, Bolivia, accused of driving the white Chevrolet Tracker used to transport the three victims, and authorities began extradition procedures to hand him to Argentine federal investigators.
• With Sotacuro’s capture, five suspects are now in custody, including Maximiliano Andrés Parra, Daniela Iara Ibarra, Miguel Ángel Villanueva Silva and Celeste Magalí González Guerrero, as the case proceeds as aggravated triple homicide.
• An Interpol red notice was issued for Matías Agustín Ozorio, identified by prosecutors as a co-author and alleged lieutenant in the plot, with orders to seek his arrest and extradition under charges that include treachery, cruelty and gender-based violence.
• Police released the identity and image of the alleged mastermind, Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, known as “Pequeño J,” after raids in Buenos Aires failed to locate him, and officials say he ordered the attack and broadcast the torture to send a message to his network.
• Forensic reports detail extreme cruelty suffered by Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez, while in a separate Peru case a necropsy finding of open cervical trauma in the death of José Miguel Castro has prompted continued prosecutorial review of a possible homicide.