Overview
- Federal agents searched two homes in El Espinillo’s Manantiales area under a Roque Sáenz Peña court order, seizing a .22 revolver and cell phones, with no detentions reported.
- Authorities localized Acaí’s GPS collar submerged in the Bermejo River and are trying to retrieve it after river searches that included the Bermejito, according to the search coordinator.
- The national parks agency described the case as an intentional attack on the tracking system after the last signal on October 25, and the Chaco government joined the federal case as a plaintiff.
- An earlier raid tied to the same investigation seized three phones from a 53-year-old man as digital evidence is prepared for forensic analysis.
- Rewilding Argentina reports the young female, released in early October after a translocation from Iberá, is missing and likely killed by hunters, underscoring the stakes for a population estimated at about 200 in the country.