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It was in the context of nine raids carried out in different parts of the city. They also arrested two other alleged members of that faction, known as “La Mafilia.”
The leader of “La Mafilia” and two other members of that criminal organization that responds to Los Monos and which they accuse of different homicides and shootings in Rosario, among other crimes, were arrested this Monday in nine raids carried out in different parts of that city. .
The operations, in which drugs, firearms and a vehicle apparently used in various criminal acts were seized, were carried out after an investigation carried out for several months by prosecutor Georgina Pairola, in conjunction with the Santa Fe Police and the Federal Police.
The official of the UFE for Intentional Homicide worked on different gangs linked to drug trafficking and accused of different serious crimes. In this case, the focus was on “La Mafilia”, which operated in the northwest of Rosario and was engaged in drug dealing, and which during this year was linked to homicides, threats and shootings at homes, schools and businesses, in the framework of the continuous disputes for the control of the city.
According to information published by local media, the detainees are a 24-year-old Paraguayan national, listed as the head of the faction, his 36-year-old “hitman boss”, and a 27-year-old woman who allegedly ran the Logistics.
According to reports, this organization is linked to the structure of Los Monos led by Leandro “Gordo” Vilches, who remains detained in the Rawson Penitentiary Unit for a drug trafficking conviction, but is at odds with the faction led by Damián “Toro” or “Guampa” Escobar and Leandro “Pollo” Vinardi, who are staying at Ezeiza.
Last March, the Santa Fe Organized Crime Prosecutor’s Office and the Procunar (Narcocrime Prosecutor’s Office) coordinated a mega-operation against Ariel Máximo “Guille” Cantero, leader of “Los Monos”, in the Marcos Paz Penitentiary Complex 2. The search also included Vilches’s cell.
The arrests were made in nine operations carried out in different parts of Rosario.
The foundations of the prosecutor’s opinion detail how Cantero, his partners and second lines of the gang (also prisoners) would be linked to at least three significant acts of violence that have occurred in recent months: the 12 shots fired at a sentry box of the Marcos prison Peace, on November 13, 2022; the murder of Lorenzo “Jimi” Altamirano on February 2, 2023, in whose body they left a note addressed to Escobar and Vinardi, and finally the attack on a Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe branch, seven days later.
Uproar over the Los Monos flag that was displayed at Maxi Rodríguez’s farewell
“We are here beyond everything.” That was the message that defiantly read a giant flag of the Rosario narco gang Los Monos that was displayed on Saturday at the Newell’s bar during Maxi Rodríguez’s farewell at the Coloso Marcelo Bielsa in Parque de la Independencia.
It was not folklore from the stands. It was a provocation, a sign of impunity. That is why justice raided the Newell’s stadium after that show, at the request of the Santa Fe Security Minister, Claudio Brilloni. The result was negative, since the flag in question was not found.
The rag had the drawings of three animals: a monkey with glasses in the center -in an unequivocal reference to the leader of Los Monos and the “red and black” barra brava, Ariel Máximo Guille Cantero, also known as “El de lentes”-; a chicken on the right -by Leandro Pollo Vinardi, one of the leaders of the second line of the leprosa brava bar, detained in the Ezeiza prison-, and a bull on the left -by Carlos Damián Toro Escobar, another leader of the second scale of the Parque bar, also detained in Ezeiza-.
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