Thefts and search for women in networks: who is the taxi driver who killed the daughter of his passengers

Fabian Debesa

04/11/2021 17:39

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 04/11/2021 5:39 PM

"

I want to establish a beautiful love relationship with a lady according to my age. Preferably a brunette with full lips. The only thing I guarantee is love

."

Thus, the remisero Marcelo Alejandro Saleh (55) tried to seek female company.

Just 45 days after that post on Facebook, he was arrested again: he killed a 23-year-old girl, the daughter of the passengers he had transferred minutes before.

Saleh believed that he was faced with the opportunity to carry out a simple and uncomplicated robbery: he had been summoned to take two passengers to Florencio Varela's penal unit 42 with a "

four-hour wait

", as part of the agreement.

Customers forgot - or voluntarily left - their house keys in the back seat.

The driver then made calculations: he

had all morning to return home, enter, steal and return to look for them at the prison.

The post that Marcelo Alejandro Saleh (25) had made on Facebook, arrested for killing Ayelén Arredondo (23) in La Plata.

A perfect plan that had an unexpected incident and was fatal.

When Saleh entered the apartment where Ernesto Arredondo and his wife, Stella Maris Maciel, live at 75 between 21 and 22, in the Altos de San Lorenzo neighborhood, in La Plata, to carry out his criminal project, he met the married couple's daughter, Ayelén Arredondo (23), leaning back in an armchair.

Details are not yet known, but the driver allegedly

beat her

to

death with a crowbar

to prevent her from recognizing him.

He smashed her face and the injuries on the girl's arms would indicate that she tried to resist.

The murder occurred around 9:30 this Saturday, an hour and a half after Saleh left "Yeye's" parents at the Varela prison complex.

Ayelén Arredondo, murdered in her home in La Plata.

He was 23 years old.

After fiercely killing her, he went through the rooms and got 8,000 pesos.

That was all the loot.

He would have been less than 15 minutes at the property.

Finally he got out to go to the car that he had left five blocks away.

A merchant who was about to open the premises near the corner of 75 and 21 saw a hooded man come out, in a

"strange attitude"

from inside the house.

The door had been left ajar and the neighbor could see the scene of the crime: the bled young woman, on a couch in the dining room.

He asked another man from the neighborhood to call the ambulance and went out to look for the mysterious character.

The remisero Marcelo Alejandro Saleh (55) was arrested for the crime of Ayelén Arredondo (23) in La Plata.

He found it 300 meters away.

He had some cuts on his arm and traces of blood.

He tried to explain that he had been the victim of a robbery, but the witness detained him and called 911. A few minutes later, the driver was arrested.

Criminal records everywhere

Saleh, who has lived alone in one of the houses of a labor complex in Ensenada for 13 years, has a

varied criminal record

, according to

Clarín

.

He had left Unit 9 in La Plata in June 2018, after serving a sentence of almost six years for "attempted robbery with the use of a weapon of war."

Some objects seized by the Police.

In 2012 a patrol from the 1st police station.

de Ensenada found him "in flagrante delicto", while he tried to enter an apartment to rob and fought on the balcony with his owner.

Due to this fact, he was on probation for a few months.

The remís driver who killed the 23-year-old also has a record of possession of an illegal weapon (2010), a qualified robbery in La Plata (1997), a robbery in Lomas de Zamora (1996) and a robbery in Mar del Plata (1986).

"

They had fired him from the Ensenada remisería

. He was always involved in

shady

things. But he had some contacts left and he continued to work illegally," they told

Clarín

about the investigation carried out by prosecutor Juan Menucci.

Ayelén Arredondo (23), murdered in La Plata.

This Sunday, a young man who claimed to be his son approached the DDI in La Plata where he is staying.

Saleh was in a couple with two women, according to some data that was contributed to the cause.

He was born in Mar del Plata and has 12 siblings.

In that city he also had several legal problems.

He was imprisoned in Batán for qualified robbery and illegal deprivation of liberty.

After completing the sentence he moved away from the Atlantic city.

At the beginning of the '90s, with little more than 25 years, he went to live in Greater Buenos Aires.

Register an address in San Justo and another in the southern area, in Lanús.

But it also appears in court: a robbery case in Lomas de Zamora.

The remisero Marcelo Alejandro Saleh (55) was arrested for the crime of Ayelén Arredondo (23) in La Plata.

Saleh will be formally detained in the next few hours "homicide criminis causa".

It means that he killed to hide another crime and the Penal Code

contemplates life imprisonment

if he is found guilty.

EMJ