Overview

• Authorities executed about 110 coordinated searches across Rosario and Villa Gobernador Gálvez and inside the Piñero, Ezeiza and Marcos Paz prisons.
• Police seized nearly 20 million pesos, more than US$2,000, cocaine, marijuana and multiple firearms including shotguns, revolvers and a homemade pistol.
• The probe targets three interlinked organizations whose alleged leaders include Nicolás “Pupito” Avalle, Carlos “Toro” Escobar and Gerónimo “Jeringa” Bogado, all already incarcerated.
• Detained suspects include Alejandro “Zapa” Vallejos of Newell’s barra brava and José “Yiyo” Medrano of Coronel Aguirre, identified as key operators in the territory.
• Investigators report 20 fugitives identified and are reviewing potential complicity by municipal employees and a police agent as prosecutors advance imputations.