Overview
- Prosecutors added crash footage to the Ruta 6 file and confirmed a 0.48 g/L breathalyzer for Gastón Montepeloso, the Federal Police chief from Rafaela, who is charged with aggravated negligent homicide, freed by a judge, and placed on administrative leave.
- In Buenos Aires, a motorcyclist fleeing a police stop collided with a taxi outside Cristina Kirchner’s residence, sending the cab onto the sidewalk where it killed a pedestrian; the rider was detained and carried a license plate with a seizure request.
- In Guaymallén, Nicolás Alejandro Varas Frías died after being run over and dragged, and the detained couple, Lucas Mariano Tello Sánchez and Micaela Natalí Lucero, now face homicide aggravated by treachery as they await a preventive detention hearing.
- Mendoza’s Homicide Prosecutor declared bus driver Lautaro Stagnoli a fugitive with provincial and national warrants in the killing of Cynthia Romina Landi, while three police officers remain jailed and charged as co-authors of aggravated homicide.
- Mexico City authorities seized the car linked to the Iztapalapa dragging death and are reconstructing its route via surveillance cameras to identify the driver, who has not been arrested as the victim’s family presses for justice.