Overview

• Police detained Sergio Alejandro Piñeiro, 50, in Mina Clavero after an operation coordinated by the Villa Cura Brochero prosecutor’s office with Córdoba police and the Federal Police.
• Authorities are processing his transfer to Buenos Aires to enforce a life sentence issued in 2015 for the killing of River Plate supporter Martín Gonzalo Acro.
• Investigators say Piñeiro lived for years in the Traslasierra valley as “Leandro Nicolás Iglesias,” formed a family, and coached the women’s team at Club Santa Ana, shocking local acquaintances.
• The courts classified Acro’s 2007 shooting as a premeditated, hired attack tied to a violent power struggle within Los Borrachos del Tablón, resulting in seven convictions across two trials.
• Prosecutors placed Piñeiro near the scene via cell-tower data and accused him of alerting the gunmen, though he denied involvement before fleeing after not appearing for the sentencing reading; his conviction was later upheld in 2017.