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They were looking for the criminal '8 Ball' but they found a drunk mayor: he was with a transvestite, an employee of the municipality

2021-05-10T18:16:25.762Z


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  • Clarín.com

  • Police

Updated 05/08/2021 15:01

A patrol of the Misiones Penitentiary Service that was in the footsteps of a dangerous criminal who had escaped from a prison in Eldorado, found a drunken mayor in the company of a transvestite near a sawmill.

The procedure ended in a scandal because the mayor of Eldorado, Fabio Martínez,

resisted the identification procedure

that the prison guards were trying to carry out.

At around 11pm this Friday, the sawmill's watchman alerted the inmates about the suspicious presence of a person on an internal road of the industrial plant.

Their fear was that it was the prisoner who had escaped from Penal Unit 3 in the morning.

A patrol arrived at the scene and

surrounded the gray Hilux pickup, even though the driver tried to escape.

After several minutes, the man agreed to descend and was quickly recognized as the mayor of Eldorado.

In the images you can see a

large number of beer cans and bottles inside the truck.

Martinez, who showed that he was drunk, was in the company of a transvestite whom he took to work in the Municipality shortly after taking office, two years ago.

The prison patrol had arrived at the scene hoping to apprehend Carlos Poncio or Jair Figleski,

a criminal who was serving a 14-year prison sentence

for a homicide he committed in 2016 in Misiones.

Figleski, better known as Ball 8, Brazilian multiple murderer.

The inmate, who is known by the alias “8 Ball” due to a tattoo on his right arm, was in the trust phase and had agreed to work in a crop sector outside the prison.

The prison agents who carry out the custody of the inmates in that productive sector confirmed the escape at 8 in the morning of this Friday and immediately alerted the prison, which mounted an operation with the support of the Missions Police.

“Bola 8” has been detained since April 2016

, accused of murdering a farmer from Pozo Azul in a frustrated robbery at gunpoint.

The crime occurred on February 29, when he shot Elvio Núñez (35) point-blank before escaping to Brazil.

The witnesses provided a key piece of information to the Police: the murderer had a billiard ball tattoo on his right arm.

The criminal re-entered the country through a clandestine passage, in the town of San Antonio, in April 2016. His appearance had changed noticeably: he had a beard and had dyed his hair, but what he could not hide was the tattoo of the 8 ball .

The killer used a double identity.

In Argentina he had a DNI in the name of Carlos Poncio, while in Brazil he had a card with the name Jair Figleski, born in the town of Frederico Westphalen, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The fingerprints crossed by Argentine and Brazilian authorities allowed to establish that it was the same criminal wanted on both sides of the border.

In addition to serving his 14-year prison sentence in Misiones, “8 Ball” had pending accounts in Brazil, where he had committed several homicides.

In the neighboring country, he did not get to be tried because he filed the bars of his cell in a state prison and fled in January 2014.

A few months earlier, Figleski had murdered Zelcio Dos Santos Lima and Darío Sotil de Carvalho in an armed robbery in the Brazilian town of San Pedro, some 500 kilometers from Misiones.

Figleski, better known as Ball 8, Brazilian multiple murderer.

He forced a third man to load the few valuables he found in the house into a car.

Before escaping, he fired a shot at him at point-blank range, and fled with the certainty that the only witness was also dead.

Clovis José Lima Blanco had received the impact in the neck, survived and contributed Figleski's name to the police, who soon found him.

By then,

the criminal already had a record of more than a dozen armed robberies

, injuries and other crimes only in Brazilian territory.

In the Triple Border area, he was associated with robberies committed on shopping tours that went to Ciudad del Este, Paraguay.

As a result of the escape, the Misiones Penitentiary Service initiated an administrative summary to determine the responsibilities and establish whether the benefit of working on the farm that was granted to “Bola 8” was well granted.

Missions.

Correspondent.

GL

Source: clarin

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