Overview

• Durango prosecutors confirmed a judge linked the mother and stepfather of Paloma Nicole to process, ordered preventive detention and set a three‑month window to complete the complementary investigation on charges including omission of care, usurpation of profession and negligent medical practice.
• In Moreno, Argentina, a 30‑year‑old man was detained on aggravated homicide after judicial sources said he confessed to causing the asphyxia of his four‑year‑old stepson, who arrived at a hospital with signs of blows and suffocation.
• In Córdoba, Argentina, two suspects accused of killing and dismembering Brenda Laiza Belén Torres were placed in preventive detention as the femicide case advances, with investigators citing stab wounds, blood traces in a home and digital searches as key evidence.
• In Sinaloa, Mexico, 26‑year‑old state police officer Jesús Alexander died from injuries suffered during the military rescue of a son of Governor Rubén Rocha Moya after a kidnapping; one alleged captor was killed and three people were injured in the operation.
• In Mexico City’s Álvaro Obregón, police used C2 video replay to track a vehicle after a street shooting that left a 21‑year‑old man and a 26‑year‑old woman dead, arresting a 38‑year‑old driver and turning him and the car over to the Ministerio Público.