Overview

• A provincial court renewed preventive detention for three officers accused of beating two detainees in Comisaría 2ª, keeping them in custody since early June.
• The Tribunal Oral Federal sentenced gendarme Hugo Ariel Zualet to a two-year suspended term for involuntary homicide in the death of recruit Pilar Pizarro and acquitted four colleagues.
• Ten UIP officers deployed from Valencia to Mallorca were expelled from their hotel after their meal allowances ran out, highlighting systemic delays in police pay.
• A federal judge in Salta formally charged Clemente Rojas for his December Facebook death threats against Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, underscoring rising risks to public officials online.
• Authorities are investigating a recent wave of violent and property crimes—among them a service-station stabbing in La Plata, arson attacks on homes and a 10 million peso burglary—with multiple arrests made.