Overview
- Police in Ciudad del Este located the ruptured electronic bracelet in the bus terminal in the early hours of Dec. 29 and seized it for processing.
- The Anatel-approved device is registered to a Brazilian technology company and was sent to authorities for legal procedures and forensic analysis.
- Vasques was detained in Asunción after cutting the monitor and attempting to fly to El Salvador with a Paraguayan ID and passport in the name of Julio Eduardo Baez Fernandez.
- Paraguayan officers sent photos to Brazil, the Federal Police confirmed his identity, and he was transferred to Brasília to serve preventive detention ordered by Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
- Monitoring records show the bracelet lost GPS and then GPRS signal around 3 a.m. on Dec. 25, which triggered the alert that launched the cross-border search.