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Sentencing, Detentions and Arrests Drive Rapid Turns in High-Profile Violent-Crime Cases

Investigations rely on video evidence and youth-justice rules to push cases into court.

Overview

  • Spain: A Málaga court issued a 14-year prison sentence to a man who drugged, abused and filmed his stepdaughter, with device forensics, hidden cameras and an attempted flight from Algeciras cited in the ruling, plus post-release supervision and bans on contact and work with minors.
  • ArgentinaSanta Fe: A 16-year-old was formally charged as coauthor of a triply aggravated homicide in the killing of Jeremías Monzón and ordered into preventive juvenile detention, a 14-year-old was attributed the act but is not punishable by law, and investigators work to identify a third participant.
  • Argentina—Mendoza: The driver accused of pursuing, striking and dragging a 19-year-old in Guaymallén was imputado for attempted homicide, while the victim remains intubated after bilateral leg amputations; a separate probe into the alleged prior robbery is pending and 17 grams of marijuana were found in the vehicle.
  • ArgentinaBuenos Aires province: Police arrested Manuel Alberto Norry on suspicion of fatally stabbing Janet Karina Arotinco Palomino in Lomas del Mirador, after security video showed the attack and investigators ruled out a robbery motive.
  • MexicoJalisco: Officials confirmed at least three dead and a woman gravely injured in a Zapopan shootout near the Mercado de Abastos, prompting a joint state–federal security deployment as authorities review extensive video from the scene.