Overview

• In Argentina’s Rosario and Villa Gobernador Gálvez, prosecutors led roughly 110 searches that yielded at least 33 detentions and seized drugs, weapons and cash, with barras bravas figures among those held and hearings set to begin next week.
• Officials in Santa Fe say the probe maps fluid ties between fractured narco groups and football hooligan networks, with operations directed from prisons and growing roles for women and minors.
• In Buenos Aires province, seven suspects are detained over the Florencio Varela triple homicide as investigators pursue alleged masterminds Tony Janzen “Pequeño J” Valverde Victoriano and Matías Ozorio under national and international warrants, after a suspect captured in Villazón, Bolivia was returned.
• In Mexico City, a federal judge sentenced Erick Hazael Ramos Mendoza to 11 years and one month for the 2022 attack on journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva, bringing convictions in the case to 12 participants.
• In Spain, recent police actions include a jailed suspect for four violent robberies against elderly women in Granada, a man remanded over five home burglaries in 24 hours in Murcia, an arrest tied to three street muggings in Palma, and two detainees accused of 16 house break-ins worth over €100,000 in Mallorca; in Argentina, prosecutors also sought up to 20 years for six defendants in a kidnapping-extortion trial with a verdict expected in early October.