The security minister of Buenos Aires province, Javier Alonso, said that cousins Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo, both aged 20, and 15-year-old Lara Morena Guti\u00e9rrez had been lured by an international drugs gang to the house with a promise of being paid to attend a party.<\/p>\n
CCTV footage of them getting into a van with fake number plates enabled police to track them to the house where they were murdered.<\/p>\n
Their bodies were found buried in the garden.<\/p>\n
The security minister said that their murder was broadcast to a closed group of 45 people. He added that during the livestream, a voice could be heard saying “this is what happens to those who steal drugs from me”.<\/p>\n
Argentine police arrested seven suspects in the days following the crime – including the man suspected of digging the hole in which the women were buried and a man and his niece, who police say drove the car in which the victims were taken to the house. <\/p>\n
But the man they suspected of having given the order for the killings, 20-year-old Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, also known as “Little J”, had eluded them. <\/p>\n
He was detained by police on a motorway 70km (43 miles) south of the Peruvian capital, Lima, hidden in a van transporting fish.<\/p>\n
In a separate operation, Peruvian police also detained a 28-year-old Argentine man, Mat\u00edas Ozorio, who they say is Mr Valverde’s right-hand man. <\/p>\n
Mr Ozorio will be handed over to Argentine police soon, while Mr Valverde, who is a Peruvian citizen, will stay in jail in Peru for now pending an extradition request by Argentina. <\/p>\n
Peruvian police said they had intercepted communications between Mr Valverde and Mr Ozorio, which allowed them to track down their movements. <\/p>\n
Mr Ozorio told police that he had been “tricked” by a drugs gang he owed money to into entering Peru. <\/p>\n
Argentina’s security minister praised Peruvian police for their work in detaining the two suspects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The security minister of Buenos Aires province, Javier Alonso, said that cousins Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-465685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115298791922170623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}