Overview
- Jonathan Andrés Peralta, 32, an active-duty traffic officer, was identified through video footage, located in Ingeniero Allan and detained by DDI La Plata investigators.
- He declined to testify in an indagatoria before prosecutor Álvaro Garganta and remains in custody after Judge Marcela Garmendia endorsed his detention.
- Prosecutors formalized charges of aggravated abduction with a firearm, aggravated sexual assault with penetration, and armed robbery, noting the weapon’s firing capability is not yet established.
- According to the complaint, the victim was forced at gunpoint into her own car in City Bell, taken to Parque Pereyra Iraola, assaulted, and later released as the assailant fled in her vehicle.
- The case proceeds under strict judicial secrecy as experts examine the seized cellphone for geolocation and call data, and the victim’s red car and her phone are still missing.