Overview
- Argentina detained Hugo Alejandro Kalenok after a highway pursuit ended with more than 90 kilos of cocaine bearing an “El Delfín” stamp found in a truck; he denied ramming gendarmes and otherwise remained silent as searches for accomplices continue.
- Mexico sentenced Armando Escárcega Valdez, alias “El Patrón,” to 14 years after he accepted charges and admitted planning the 2022 attempt on journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva under CJNG orders, with restitution imposed.
- In Rosario, prosecutors closed arguments seeking life terms for four defendants and argued René “Brujo” Ungaro instigated the 2022 double murder of Virginia Ferreyra and her mother from jail to sow fear.
- Buenos Aires province carried out 18 coordinated raids that arrested five alleged police impersonators accused in a $80,000 travel‑agency robbery, seizing weapons, fake badges and phones as two suspects remain at large.
- Peru reported a contract-style killing of Luis Alberto Valera Vega in Rímac and an extortion shooting on an HRG Express bus in San Martín de Porres, while Argentina logged a deadly Tucumán shootout and advancing probes into alleged police misconduct.