Overview

• Mendoza security forces carried out 45 raids across western neighborhoods, arresting seven suspects tied to violent robberies and drug trafficking, including two accused of shooting a 17-year-old, and seizing firearms, phones and cocaine.
• In Villa Cerrito, police arrested Santiago Matías Laiño after a high-speed chase and exchange of 10 to 15 shots, recovering a 9mm Bersa with an active seizure order, ammunition, 88 grams of cocaine, cash and phones, with no injuries reported.
• Mexican authorities in Sonora widened an aerial search after ambushes on Guardia Nacional and AMIC units near Ures, recovering an AK‑47 from an abandoned SUV and identifying a priority target as operations extended to nearby municipalities.
• In Spain’s Forata flood inquiry, CHJ president Miguel Polo testified he urged a mass SMS alert around 18:00 and said Carlos Mazón later directed the Cecopi late at night, conflicting with earlier accounts that discussion of the alert began after 19:00; phones received the message at 20:11.
• At the Comodoro Py trial for the 2022 attack on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Fernando Sabag Montiel’s defense sought acquittal on grounds of mental incapacity, while prosecutors asked for a 15‑year sentence (to be unified to 19), with a verdict expected in late September or early October.