Overview
- Prosecutors in Santa Fe said raids across Rosario and Villa Gobernador Gálvez found twin 7-year-old girls and a 10-year-old boy being used to pass drugs, and the minors were placed under provincial care.
- Authorities reported 12 arrests, 12 seized firearms and about one kilogram of cocaine, linking the cases to recent shootings and the Dec. 31 killing of 16-year-old Valentino Ramírez, with another suspect identified and sought.
- In La Matanza, police detained and charged Luis Acosta Abruzzese with aggravated double homicide after the killings of his partner, Gimena Agustina Cardozo López, and their 11-month-old son, as forensic results are awaited.
- In Mar del Plata’s Nuevo Golf neighborhood, a 16-year-old was shot dead during a street gunfight; a suspect was arrested after a Fiat Palio flipped and showed bullet damage.
- Investigators arrested two suspects in the robbery of journalist Nicolás Wiñazki, recovered the getaway car and a revolver, and tied one detainee to the vehicle by fingerprints; separately, Peru’s police reported the fatal shooting of footballer Jhon Carbajal Torres in Huaura.