The case caused astonishment in direct witnesses and also in those who saw the incredible video.
The car that explodes while loading CNG at a service station in the province of Salta and the cocaine buns
that fly through the air,
in the middle of a white cloud of dust,
They surprised everyone.
The Buenos Aires Police sergeant who was driving the car said she felt the same surprise and who this Friday gave her version of the episode before the Justice: she assured that
she did not know that she had that drug in the gas pipe
of her vehicle.
Agent Sofía Chaparro sat in front of the magistrate of Federal Court 2 of Oran.
At the beginning of her statement, the police maintained
that she had just picked up the car from a mechanic's shop
and that she was preparing to return to Buenos Aires with her three children, ages 9, 13, and 14, who were with her when the incident occurred. burst.
She explained that she had traveled from that province so that her children could have contact with their father, from whom she recently separated.
She added that she was in the city of Colonia Santa Rosa, in the department of Oran,
for work reasons.
According to the report of the Public Prosecutor's Office, after this presentation the defense indicated that the accused was not going to testify in the rest of the hearing and requested that she be granted house arrest so that she could take care of her children, two of whom suffer from a disability.
The prosecution formalized the accusation and requested, in turn, the
preventive detention
of the accused.
He justified it by the
seriousness of the incident
, the risk of flight and procedural obstruction, as well as the criminal scale of the case, which prevents the application of the benefit of conditional imprisonment.
Sofía Chaparro, the Buenos Aires police officer arrested in Salta after her car exploded with 20 kilos of cocaine.
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The judge finally ruled that Chaparro remain under preventive detention for the next 60 days, while the investigation continues.
He is charged with the crime of "
transportation of narcotics
aggravated by being committed by police personnel."
Meanwhile, sources from the General Auditor of Internal Affairs of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security reported that the sergeant was
removed from her duties
while the investigation progresses.
Chaparro worked at the seventh police station of La Matanza, based in Villa Celina, although he had a medical file and had traveled to Corrientes and then to Salta with his children.
A load of CNG, explosion and a shower of cocaine for 80 thousand dollars
The episode occurred on Wednesday night at the "Géminis Gas" CNG station, located on Palacios Avenue in the Salta city of Oran, where Chaparro arrived aboard a Ford Fiesta with his children.
That car is 50% owned by the woman and the same by her ex-husband.
Once at the business, the occupants of the car got out and the police asked the beachgoer to give them a minimum gas charge, at which point
the car exploded
, as recorded in a video from the place's security cameras.
The explosion of a car carrying gas in Orán, Salta, which sent cocaine flying into the air.
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After the explosion, all witnesses noticed that the car and the surrounding area were covered in a white powder that was later determined
to be cocaine
.
Also due to the explosion, several packages wrapped in yellow paper and containing more of that drug flew.
The investigators who worked at the scene after the arrival of the police estimated that the charge located in the gas tube reached
20 kilos
.
They also reported that the drug
is valued at about 80 thousand dollars
.
Justice now has 60 days to gather information about the origin of the cocaine and what its destination was.
Salta media reported that investigators believe that the drugs
came from Bolivia
and were destined for the city of Buenos Aires.
In addition, they handle the possibility that a
transnational organization
is behind all this .
Both the drugs and five cell phones belonging to Chaparro and his daughters were seized by members of the National Gendarmerie (GNA) who were in charge of the investigation and expert reports within the framework of the case.
In turn, the sergeant's 13-year-old son suffered a minor eye injury, for which he had to be treated at the Oran hospital.
It was in that care center where, in a first statement without legal validity before the Police, Chaparro gave for the first time the version that he did not know that there was cocaine in the gas pipe of the car and that he had just taken it from the mechanic's workshop, the same as He reiterated this Friday in front of the judge and the prosecutor.
Before the hearing, the police were detained at the headquarters of the GNA's Oran Squadron 20, and now they are waiting for the judge to decide whether they continue to be housed there or if they are sent to a prison.
The police informants added that until a week ago the sergeant was fulfilling non-operational functions in the force, since she had a health problem, and that she had traveled to Corrientes from where she went to Salta before returning to Buenos Aires.
With information from Télam