Overview

• Prosecutor Adrián Arribas confirmed security-camera images show ‘Pequeño J’ meeting 15-year-old Lara Gutiérrez on September 6 at a fast-food restaurant.
• ‘Pequeño J’ is detained in Peru and awaits extradition to Argentina, where he is described in reports as the alleged mastermind of the triple homicide.
• Nine suspects are in custody, including driver Víctor Lázaro Sotacuro and his niece, while the first detainees were found washing bloodstains at the house where the bodies were buried.
• Witness testimony and audio recordings implicate Sotacuro as a logistics provider for vehicles and a garage, with conflicting accounts of his payment for the trip (65,000 versus 600,000 pesos).
• Investigators identify ‘El loco David’—also called ‘El Tarta’—as the alleged hitman who transported the victims; he remains a fugitive as prosecutors note drug links are still an unproven hypothesis.