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Seventh Arrest in Florencio Varela Triple Femicide as Driver’s Niece Is Detained

Prosecutors frame the case as an organized, narco-linked plot in which the new detainee rode in a support car.

Overview

  • Police detained Florencia Ibáñez, 30, during a TV interview in Buenos Aires, and she is now considered a participant in the operation that transported the three victims.
  • Ibáñez acknowledges being in the support vehicle and says she will provide her phone and vehicle records to the prosecutor, while denying any involvement in the killings.
  • Ariel Giménez, accused of being hired to dig the burial pits, refused to testify before prosecutor Carlos Adrián Arribas and remains in custody.
  • Investigators say the victims were buried at a Florencio Varela house and later concealed under a concrete slab, and evidence includes CCTV and toll records tying vehicles to the route.
  • Lázaro Víctor Sotacuro, alleged driver of the white pickup, was captured in Bolivia and extradited to Argentina, bringing arrests to seven as the hunt continues for the alleged mastermind 'Pequeño J' and his deputy Matías Ozorio.