04/02/2021 4:31 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/02/2021 4:31 PM
The San Luis police found this Friday a body near Cortaderas, a small town located in the northwest of the province, and they are trying to determine if it is
Alejandro "Bebo" Ochoa
, the rural laborer who mysteriously disappeared last Saturday.
"As a result of the exhaustive rakings that the police have been carrying out for several days to find the whereabouts of citizen Alejandro Ochoa, this Friday at noon the uniformed men
found a lifeless body.
The discovery was carried out in the place 'El Adobe ', more than two kilometers from the central town of Cortaderas, "reported from the Police, as reproduced by the local media
Infomerlo
.
In addition, it was reported that the experts are trying to determine the identity of the person found dead.
Ochoa's disappearance mobilized an entire town almost a week ago.
Jesús Alejandro Ochoa (35) disappeared on Saturday.
Photo Facebook.
More than 180 policemen
participated in the search in the Cortaderas area.
An investigation that was expanded and extended to the neighboring area of Los Molles, northeast of San Luis.
Police divers were also tasked with inspecting the water mirrors in the area.
The disappearance of the rural laborer is a fact that shook the inhabitants of the area, who mobilized with protests in front of the police station and continue to carry out roadblocks.
The Municipality of Cortaderas is a small, very quiet place, with just over 1,500 inhabitants.
They all know each other
.
"Bebo" is 35 years old and is part of
a family of five siblings
.
He lives alone, without a wife or children, three kilometers from the Plaza de Cortaderas, the town located south of Villa de Merlo, northeast of San Luis. "Ochoa lives in the rural area. In the middle of the field, at the foot of the Sierra de los Comechingones ", remarks a local source consulted by
Clarín
.
The desperate request of Bebo Ochoa's family.
Photo: courtesy of El Corredor Noticias.
Ochoa is linked to rural jobs.
However, the same source says that he
is
actually
"bricklayer"
.
"I have been out of work for more than ten days," said the local with whom this newspaper spoke.
A witness at the time he disappeared said that two hooded men, with long weapons, who were in a house near Ochoa's, had taken him away.
That witness is close to Ochoa and, according to his testimony, he
was saved from the abduction because he hid among some weeds
.
In the framework of a series of procedures ordered by the Criminal, Correctional and Contraventional Court of the Third Judicial District, in charge of Judge Patricia Besso, according to Infomerlo.com,
Ochoa's cell phone was found
, which is being appraised, and did a visual inspection at the place where he lived.
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