Although everyone knew who he was,
no one called him by name
when planning a shootout or collecting a drug delivery debt.
Despite this precaution, "Leo Rey" fell into the hands of Justice a week ago and this Thursday he was charged in Rosario as an important
drug supplier linked to Los Monos.
The announcement of
the capture of Leonardo Dalmacio Saravia was a kind of déjà vu
.
Almost two years ago, the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) arrested him for the same crimes during an operation with an epicenter in Villa Banana.
After the investigation, he agreed to a house arrest regime.
Later, the Court of Appeals revoked the measure and ordered him to go to jail, but he had already escaped.
Since then, the cocaine dealer has not retired.
He obtained an ID and a driver's license under a false name and set up residence in Roldán, some 20 kilometers west of Rosario.
At the beginning of 2022, the investigators slipped that he bought drugs from
Iván Maximiliano Giménez
, murdered along with his partner and his drink in the triple crime of Ibarlucea after a drug wedding party.
In the last 8 months, the city's Federal Prosecutor's Office 3 detected another marketing circuit.
Saravia was based in the city of Buenos Aires and sent the merchandise by car to the main city of Santa Fe.
After the trip, he supplied the points of sale "protected" by the gang of Ariel Máximo Cantero Sr. and his partner.
Like the "Old Man", the supplier was a figure of weight that the criminals did not mention directly.
During a videoconference hearing, they charged him as a member of the illicit association in another provincial case.
His real name does not appear once in 77 pages
of wiretap transcripts.
In the Triple Crime of Ibarlucea, Iván Maximiliano Giménez was murdered along with his partner and their 1-year-old baby.
Photo Juan Jose Garcia
Prosecutor Valeria Haurigot and her colleague Franco Carbone identified the 32-year-old's involvement based on different nicknames.
Sometimes he was the
"boy with the crown"
or
"the one with the little crown"
.
In other talks, he was simply referred to as the "King."
Until the end of April 2022, the narco-criminal organization denounced by the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPA) operated with Cantero and his partner Rosa Bibiana Montero as leaders.
"Bibi" and "El Viejo" controlled Vía Honda, where they lived, and also illegal activity in other sectors of the west and southwest.
For the investigators, "Leo Rey" fulfilled a fundamental role because he was the
"link" between the top leaders of the criminal structure and the heads
of the cells in each neighborhood.
His most important mission was to get the drug out of the city to "take it down" to neighborhoods like Triángulo, Plata, Villa Banana and Villa Urquiza.
In parallel with the evidence aired at the Criminal Justice Center, federal sources indicated that the "boy with the crown" was at the service of Franco Matías Almaraz (22).
"Milanesa" is a hitman from the Ludueña neighborhood who is already in custody.
In September he agreed to a 20-year prison sentence for manslaughter.
Ariel Máximo Cantero Sr., alias "Old Man".
The Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) denounced a similar connection with the drug business of one of the sons of "Old" Cantero behind bars.
Alexis Claudio Schneider
is also mentioned with his father's last name in court records and it is presumed that he worked alongside his partner Sheila Mailén Suárez.
He is currently serving an effective sentence of 24 years and 10 months.
Just as the investigators
set a trap for Saravia
to intercept the shipment of a drug shipment, in the same procedure with 26 raids they ordered searches in the prisons to prove how the criminal structure worked.
"Tartita" and "Milanesa" had their cells searched in the Piñero prison, while the young woman was subjected to a similar inspection in Penitentiary Unit 5 in Rosario.
On the one hand, the Federal Police captured two men and two women in Ramallo.
The group was divided into a Toyota Etios and a Ford Focus.
On board they had loaded 20 loaves of 21,645 kilograms of cocaine bound for Rosario.
On the other hand, the uniformed officers went to look for the supplier in the City of Buenos Aires.
They arrested him with four accomplices in a hotel room located between Balvanera and Almagro.
As in the wiretaps, they did not find any trace of his real name.
In the documents he was Hernán Sebastián Zurita, although
the photo gave him away: he was the boy with the little crown
.
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