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One of the fugitives for the crime of Gabriel Izzo (60), the businessman murdered on June 9 in San Antonio de Padua, was arrested this afternoon in Ituzaingó, so there are already three arrested for the case. Two other suspects are still wanted by the Police.
This is Gustavo Julio Alberto Mac Dougall (49), who was arrested when he was walking down Deheza street, in the Villa Ariza neighborhood.
The suspect, noticing the presence of personnel from the Morón Departmental Investigation Directorate (DDI), tried to run away but was subdued by the police.
In his possession, the agents only kidnapped a wallet and the SUBE card, while they saw him quite deteriorated and skinnier than in the publicly disseminated images to achieve his capture, according to judicial sources informed Télam.
Gabriel Izzo, the businessman killed in an assault in Padua.
After his arrest, Mac Dougall was made available to the prosecutors of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 5 of Morón in charge of the case, Marisa Monti and Claudio Oviedo, who will investigate him this Thursday.
For his part, another of the detainees, Gustavo Damián Potenza (45), arrested on Saturday in Pontevedra, expanded his inquiry and reiterated to prosecutors that he is “innocent.” He also gave some details with the aim of avoiding his participation in the assault in which the businessman Izzo was assassinated and his wife Silvana Petinari (56) ended up injured.
“He expanded a little more in telling where he was allegedly at the time of the event,” a source from the investigation explained to Télam, for which Walter Rodríguez Sierra, alias “El Uruguayo,” is also being held.
Gabriel Izzo (60), the businessman murdered in Padua
According to the spokesperson consulted, prosecutors are focused on analyzing “the DVR videos of the pizzeria, the kiosk, the house of the ‘Uruguayo’ and other kiosks owned by the same owner.”
Gustavo Julio Alberto Mac Dougall (49) and Gustavo Damián Potenza (45), arrested for the crime of the merchant Gabriel Izzo in Padua.
“The first thing we want to see is the movement of the gang from the pizzeria and every movement before and after the attack on the house,” the source added.
Potenza was investigated as a co-perpetrator of the crime of “theft qualified by the use of a firearm, homicide criminis causes two acts, one of them in the degree of attempt and possession of a war weapon”, the same crime for which Rodríguez Sierra is accused.
The spokesmen added that, in addition, the prosecutors Oviedo and Monti asked the experts of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) to also analyze the phones seized in the framework of the case.
In the case, there are two other identified suspects who have a national and international arrest warrant, ordered by the judge of Guarantees 2 of Morón, Ricardo Fraga: Diego Eduardo Correa (25) and Víctor Ricardo Martín Fernández Galarza (34).
Diego Eduardo Correa is 25 years old and is accused of co-authoring the crime against Gabriel Izzo in San Antonio de Padua. They issued an order for his capture at the national and international level.
The crime occurred on Friday, June 9 at 4:20 a.m. in a house on Calle Italia 1077, a few blocks from the center of the San Antonio de Padua station, where Izzo, owner of a sawmill, lived with his wife Petinari, daughter of the owner of a company dedicated to the manufacture of trailers, overturns and semi-trailers in Merlo.
At least two thieves attacked an American-type wooden blind in the house and entered, after which they surprised the couple.
Víctor Ricardo Martín Fernández Galarza, the fourth suspect identified for the Padua crime.
Outside, two other thieves were waiting for them inside a gray Volkswagen Gol Power as a “bell”.
According to the sources, Izzo woke up to noises and grabbed two weapons that he kept in his bedroom – a Bersa .40 caliber pistol and a .38 revolver – and left the room to see what was going on.
In these circumstances, he confronted the thieves, who shot him with firearms and also stabbed him.
The victim also fired, although only with the revolver since the pistol jammed and apparently did not hit anyone.
Izzo died at the scene as a result of five gunshot wounds and also a stab wound that the criminals inflicted on him, while his wife was stabbed and beaten.
Also in the house was the mother of the injured woman, Elsa Otruba de Petinari (83), who was unharmed as she did not leave the room.
Days after the crime, Rodríguez Sierra was arrested, who appears as the owner of the Gol vehicle used in the event, although he declared that he had sold it to Mac Dougall and that he had not made the transfer.
His son and an 18-year-old boy were also arrested, but they were released within hours.
While the car, which was filmed by municipal security cameras, was found precisely in front of the commercial premises belonging to Rodríguez Sierra.
The autopsy report revealed that the businessman received four bullet wounds (the fatal one in the neck) and a ballistic comparison established that Izzo was shot with a .380 caliber pistol seized, along with a 9-millimeter Bersa, in the pizzeria ” Lo de Cata”, located in Gervasio Pavón at 3500 Castelar Sur, at whose door the vehicle in which the assailants were moving was found parked.
That pizzeria, like an adjoining kiosk and other locals in the area, belongs to Rodríguez Sierra.
In that pizzeria, in addition to firearms, the investigations found objects allegedly stolen from Izzo and his wife.
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