Overview
- Prosecutors added crash video and a 0.48 g/L alcohol result to the case against federal police chief Maximiliano Montepeloso, who is imputated for aggravated negligent homicide, freed by Judge Luis Marcelo Giacoia, and placed on administrative availability by the national Security Ministry while a suspected street‑race scenario remains under analysis.
- In Almirante Brown, officer Agostina Medina remains in grave condition with possible spinal involvement after motochorros opened fire and stole her partner’s service pistol, as UFI No. 3 in Lomas de Zamora leads the manhunt and evidence review.
- A motorcyclist who fled a police check in Constitución crashed into a taxi near Cristina Kirchner’s residence, causing the cab to strike pedestrians and kill one person, with the rider detained and a judicial investigation underway.
- Mendoza’s Homicide Prosecutor issued provincial and national arrest orders for bus driver Lautaro Stagnoli, suspected of firing the shots that killed Cynthia Romina Landi, while three police officers are detained and charged as co‑authors.
- Parallel actions include four detentions and 9mm casings seized after a Rosario shooting, a Peru PNP raid in SJL that intervened 40 people and confiscated two pistols and a mini Uzi, Jalisco investigators securing eight vehicles and logging 2,022 spent cartridges with no arrests reported, traffic officers struck by a motorcycle that evaded a checkpoint in El Zanjón, and the Echesortu robbery suspect confirmed detained in Córdoba pending transfer.