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The head of the organization is a 26-year-old detainee who is in the Coronda prison. His mother, a brother, his partner, his mother-in-law and a cousin also participated in the band.
In a major operation carried out in the city of Rosario, 19 people were arrested, including 4 active police officers, as a result of 26 raids. The dismantled gang was dedicated to the sale of drugs and had recruited two minors in an extremely vulnerable situation, whom they forced to consume and sell cocaine, as well as prostitute themselves.
According to police and judicial sources, the head of the drug police organization is a 26-year-old prisoner identified as Lautaro G, currently detained in the Coronda prison. His mother, a brother, his partner, his mother-in-law and a cousin also participated in the gang, according to the spokespersons.
The raids carried out this Friday ended with the arrest of 19 people, including 4 members of the Santa Fe Police, arrested on suspicion of covering up illegal activities.
In the investigation, in charge of the federal court 4 and the prosecutor’s office 2 of Rosario, the National Program for the Rescue and Accompaniment of Persons Victims of the Crime of Trafficking also intervened, which managed to free the two adolescents aged 16 and 17.
One of the points where the raids were carried out.
The police operation led to the kidnapping of 323 grams of cocaine, 3.7 kilos of marijuana, 35 cell phones, 3 firearms, 8 boxes of ammunition, 7 scales and an Audi A1 car, according to sources close to the investigation.
The case was disrupted thanks to the complaint of one of the minors captured under the modality of trafficking. The 16-year-old teenager reported to the Coronda police in April that she had been the victim of a theft of her cell phone and that a 17-year-old friend was being held by a group of people in a van.
Based on the testimonies of the minors, who recounted how they had been deceived with a job offer and then forced to sell drugs and prostitute themselves, the investigators made progress in identifying and monitoring the criminal organization.
Although it is a smaller gang dedicated to drug dealing in some sectors of the Nuevo Alberdi and Zona Cero neighborhoods of Rosario, the wiretaps revealed that in one weekend the cousin of the gang leader managed to raise 565,000 pesos and had in his possession a kilo of cocaine.
Narcopolice gang arrested in Rosario.
The investigation revealed that “Isma”, as the leader of the organization is known, gave instructions from prison to his partner and his mother-in-law, who together with a cousin were in charge of splitting the drug, distributing it and collecting money through a network of sellers.
The investigation determined that one of the minors was contacted through the social network Facebook, through which she requested work in cleaning, cooking or childcare tasks, urged by the need to have a job to achieve “possession of his daughter”.
The publication was answered by a woman from Rosario who was interested and asked her to travel, which she did with a 17-year-old friend.
In Rosario, a woman received them at the bus terminal and took them by remis to a house, where after a while a man nicknamed “Pepe” appeared, the sources said.
This man gave him a video call with whom he identified as “the boss”, who told them: “They are going to work for me, otherwise I am going to shoot them in the legs, they will not come out alive,” according to the records of the case. .
In their testimonials, the adolescents declared that they were forced to sell drugs, that in order not to fall asleep at dawn at the points of sale they were forced to take cocaine, and forced to prostitute themselves with members of the gang and even with police personnel who covered it up. .
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