Individual cell and far, far away, from any other inmate prosecuted or convicted of drug trafficking;
surprise searches every time the prison guards see fit;
no mobile phones;
installation of cell signal inhibitors in the pavilion where he is staying;
let them watch it with cameras;
that each person with whom you speak through the jail landline is registered;
Only the same people who have been authorized to maintain telephone contact may visit it.
After his daring attempt to escape by helicopter - frustrated last Friday, March 10 in the Ezeiza prison -
Esteban Lindor Alvarado (46)
went from being a dangerous prisoner to a super dangerous one.
For him, the attorney general of Rosario Oscar Arrigo and the Narcocriminal Prosecutor's Office (Procunar) had requested a special control regime like the one already in place by Ariel "Guille" Cantero - leader of Los Monos - and the so-called "King of Ephedrine" , Mario Segovia.
His very playful attempt to fly out of the Ezeiza Penitentiary Complex I reactivated the claims and now the Federal Oral Court No. 2 of Rosario granted the measures requested by the prosecutors.
Judges Otmar Paulucci, Eugenio Martínez Ferrero and Osvaldo Facciano emphasized in their ruling -of 20 pages and to which
Clarín
had access- the easy access that Alvarado had to a smart watch that was found buried in the soccer field of his pavilion and also to a cell phone.
With both devices, he had planned the escape, filming even the best place for the helicopter to descend, an aircraft that he had bought in Spain especially for his escape.
If Alvarado was already bothered by the sanctions that were applied to him from time to time and being placed in isolation, surely this new regime of life will drive him crazy.
We must not forget a minor detail: Alvarado is
sentenced to life imprisonment
, many years await him in prison.
The most likely thing is that through his lawyer, Fernando Arias Caamaño, the man from Rosario will file an appeal arguing that he is facing a violation of human rights.
In its resolution, the Federal Court of Rosario addresses the issue and refers to Italian legislation, famous for its fight against mafias: "
In that order, in the Enea v. Italy case of 2009, the court considered that the restrictions imposed as consequence of the special penitentiary regime were necessary to prevent the applicant, who represented a danger to society, from maintaining contacts with the criminal organization to which he belonged".
In the same situation are the drug lords housed in Argentine prisons, mostly dependent on the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF).
The confinement does not usually prevent them from moving kilos of cocaine along their routes or ordering people to be killed.
This is the main reason why the Procunar has been requesting a special regime for all high-profile drug traffickers and not just for some particular cases, such as Guille Cantero, Segovia or Alvarado.
The escape that was not
Alvarado's escape attempt once again revealed the freedom with which prisoners with power and money are handled within the prisons.
And his access to a smartwatch wore thin.
With it he could chat with the pilot in charge of the rescue.
But the WhatsApp chat was not the only function of the device.
Apparently the watch was used to take internal images of the prison and thus choose the best place where the helicopter -a Robinson 44- that was going to rescue him should descend on Friday afternoon.
Through intelligence tasks, the pilot's cell phone (only identified as "Lobo") could be cloned, and the dialogues between him and Alvarado were intercepted and monitored in real time.
This is how it became known what the narco from Rosario was doing with the watch, and even that the cost of the rescue operation would be around 100 thousand dollars.
In a dialogue on WhatsApp taken on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 7 (three days before the failed escape on Friday), Alvarado passed two videos from the jail to "Lobo" and they joked about the topography of the place:
-Alvarado: Wolf...
-Wolf: Chief...
-Alvarado: How are you Lobo?
How are we doing?
I'm sending you a couple of videos.
-Wolf: I can go down with a tree there Haha...
-Alvarado: Yes, it's really big.
But from above it must be reduced haha.
-Wolf: Naa, I've really gone down in confined spaces.
-Alvarado: The columns must be 30 or 35 meters from each other.
-Wolf: Trees, cables, columns...
-Alvarado: Yes, you tried it...
-Wolf: Nothing to fear.
-Alvarado: That is the attitude.
By the time this dialogue took place, it had been a week since Esteban Lindor Alvarado and his accomplices for the escape had been followed by the Federal Police in an operation commanded by federal judge Ernesto Kreplak and coordinated through the Narcocrime Prosecutor's Office (Procunar ) and the prosecutor Cecilia Incardona.
Actually Alvarado had planned the escape for a few days before.
The date was Friday, March 3.
But that day the Justice ordered a series of simultaneous searches in the prisons of Ezeiza, Marcos Paz and Rawson in search of cell phones in the possession of drug traffickers.
That operation focused on five members of the Los Monos gang, including its leader Ariel "Guille" Cantero, housed in Marcos Paz.
Alvarado and Cantero are archenemies but by chance the operation against one ended up harming the other, or at least delaying their plans.
The importer fajinero
Esteban Lindor Alvarado is a man to be feared, with a blood-curdling record.
That is why he is surprised that
the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) has given him the task of fajinero
inside his pavilion.
On paper, a fajinero is a prisoner who has earned the trust of the system and for this reason has the task of cleaning the place of accommodation.
It is actually a privileged position because it allows freedom of movement in places and times much more extensive than the rest.
That in a jail is pure gold.
Apparently another fajinero from the pavilion was Claudio "Morocho" Mansilla, who ended up in Ezeiza after being recaptured after having escaped from the Piñero prison, in Rosario.
This escape was in 2021. Along with seven other Mansilla prisoners, he was rescued by a commando group that used machine guns and a black Peugeot 3008 with a changed patent to enter the prison.
With grinders they cut the perimeter fences where the drug traffickers left.
Although it ended up going wrong, Alvarado had planned his escape in great detail, to the point that the helicopter was imported from Europe in the container of a merchant ship and had to be specially assembled in Paraguay.
The drug lord put every last resort in his escape plan.
I do not save on expenses or logistics.
No wonder: in June 2022 the Federal Oral Court of Rosario sentenced him to 15 years in prison as head of a drug gang and in 2022 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for homicide, threats and head of an illicit association.
MG
