Overview

• Peruvian police, working with Buenos Aires investigators, captured Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, 20, near Pucusana after he hid in a truck traveling south of Lima.
• Hours earlier in Lima, officers detained Matías Agustín Ozorio, 28, identified as the suspect’s right-hand man, following coordinated tracking of their phones.
• The arrests bring the case to nine detainees tied to the killings of Brenda del Castillo, Morena Verdi and Lara Gutiérrez in a house in Florencio Varela.
• Authorities expect both detainees to be transferred to Argentina to face prosecutor Adrián Arribas, who has imposed a 48-hour secrecy order on the investigation.
• Investigators describe the murders as premeditated and exceptionally cruel, with forensic work underway that includes upcoming cellphone analyses and searches that located a suspected support vehicle in Quilmes.