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Forensics, Teen Confession Spur Arrests and Charge Upgrades in Killings Across Argentina, Mexico and Peru

Autopsy results and new witness information are accelerating prosecutions and custody decisions across multiple active investigations.

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Rescatan en Rosario a una mujer víctima de explotación laboral. Una de las viviendas allanadas, en barrio Martin. 
Maximiliano Roth (23), detenido otra vez por fracturarle el cráneo a un bebé de 11 meses en Coronel Suárez. La radiografía con las lesiones.
Camioneta en la que viajaban cinco personas que fueron linchadas en Oaxaca

Overview

  • In Mendoza, a 15-year-old confessed to being at Franco Patricio Aracena’s apartment and identified Tomás Jeremías Gómez, who surrendered to police as forensic examiners concluded Aracena died by strangulation.
  • In Santa Fe’s Damián Strada case, investigators seized the victim’s cellphone during home searches and detained two additional suspects, bringing the total to four as prosecutors moved to seek preventive detention.
  • Prosecutors in Santa Fe upgraded charges against police officer César Omar Muga to femicide after an autopsy linked Estela González’s death to August gunshot wounds, and a judge ordered a Mental Health Board evaluation.
  • In Lima’s Breña district, police found Alexander Valverde Laines dead in the trunk of his car and detained his partner, Keily Arimar Aguilera Meneses, who according to police sources gave an initial confession.
  • In Mexico, authorities detained José Adolfo “N” and Andrik Roberto “N” in Guadalupe after a shooting that killed a 5-year-old, while in Tijuana a suspect was arrested following the ambush killing of municipal officer Jorge Robledo Hernández.