Overview
- The Camaná prosecutor’s office requested a seven-day in-flagrante judicial detention for Henry Apaclla, the pickup driver in the Ocoña bus collision that left 37 dead and 25 injured, noting a 0.11 g/L blood-alcohol result from a sample taken six hours after the crash as traffic and mechanical peritajes continue.
- Peru’s National Police, with the Public Ministry, executed a megaoperation in Lima and Callao that dismantled the group ‘La Hermandad del Norte,’ arresting suspects tied to an August theft of medical cargo worth €142,000 and seizing vehicles and electronic gear used to block GPS trackers.
- In La Plata, Buenos Aires province, police detained 19-year-old Santino Ezequiel Piedrabuena in the homicide of Hugo Agustín González after multiple raids that also recovered ammunition and phones for analysis.
- Salta police carried out five simultaneous searches in a grievous-injury case, detaining six people and seizing improvised firearms, knives, eight phones, two motorcycles—one reported stolen—and doses of cocaine and marijuana under the direction of Fiscalía Penal 6.
- In Tucumán, three police officers, including former regional chief Gustavo Javier Beltrán, were charged over allegedly using detainees as unpaid labor at Beltrán’s property, with a preventive detention request submitted and evidence such as seized phones, a DVR and a police Hilux detailed by the prosecutor, while a separate Córdoba complaint over alleged illegal coercion by police was reassigned to the Fiscalía General.