Overview

• The 49-year-old suspect is alleged to have sexually abused two children aged 10 and 11 in Asunción on January 5, 2022.
• He evaded justice for more than three years by adopting a false identity and working as a hairdresser in Buenos Aires’s Colegiales neighborhood.
• Interpol, Paraguayan authorities and the Argentine Federal Police shared social media data, surveillance and law enforcement databases to track him down.
• Police arrested the fugitive on July 19 outside a salon on Avenida Federico Lacroze after confirming his assumed identity.
• He is now held by the Juzgado Nacional en lo Criminal y Correccional Federal Nº5 pending Paraguay’s formal extradition request.