Overview

• Police detained Florencia, the niece of Lázaro Víctor Sotacuro, after her TV interviews; investigators place her in a Volkswagen Fox seen supporting the SUV that transported the three victims.
• Authorities report at least six people in custody, with some outlets counting seven after the niece’s arrest; recent detainees include Ariel Giménez, accused of burying the bodies.
• Sotacuro, captured in Villazón, Bolivia, was flown via Jujuy to Buenos Aires to be interrogated on aggravated homicide charges and is linked by investigators to the Fox used as a support vehicle.
• The defense says it can document the car’s movements until around 1–2 a.m. but cannot account for Sotacuro between roughly 1:30 and 5 a.m., a window that overlaps the killings.
• Peru’s government confirmed the identity of “Pequeño J” and reported no legal departures on his record, bolstering investigators’ view that the alleged mastermind moved across borders illegally.