At least
six people were detained
this Friday in a series of raids in the case of the crime of the two taxi drivers in Rosario.
One of those arrested would be directly involved in the murders of Héctor Figueroa and Diego Alejandro Celentano, the drivers attacked in similar episodes on Tuesday and Wednesday night.
The young man, whose identity was not revealed, is identified as the person who
ordered both trips from the
Su Radio Taxi company.
The raids began at dawn.
Later in the day there were two other procedures, in which several people were delayed, including the suspect.
The last raids were in Cochabamba at 5600 and in Nicaragua at 2215,
Rosario3
indicated .
Provincial sources had reported that they carried out five similar operations at dawn in Teniente Agneta at 1800, Uruguay at 5900, Belgrano and Avenida Argentina, Flammarion at 5000 and Lamadrid at 400 bis.
From there they took 15 cell phones, a motorcycle and 65 ammunition of different calibers.
At the raided home of Lieutenant Agneta at 1800, residents threw three firearms and ammunition into the yard of a neighbor's house, which were subsequently kidnapped by personnel from the Radioelectric Command of Regional Unit II.
Raids in Rosario for the crimes of taxi drivers.
In this procedure, they detained six people and seized a 12.70 caliber shotgun;
a 22 caliber revolver;
a semi-automatic pistol;
a 9 millimeter magazine and various ammunition.
The raids were supervised by prosecutor Patricio Saldutti, from the Intentional Homicide Unit of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPA).
In addition, there are suspects detained for the attack against the bus driver who was shot in the skull on Thursday afternoon.
On Tuesday night, Héctor Figueroa, a taxi driver and father of two daughters, was murdered while driving his vehicle in the Tiro Suizo neighborhood, on the border with Las Delicias, when an alleged passenger shot him twice in the head in the vicinity of Flammarion and Lamadrid.
Next to the body they found his cell phone and his wallet with the proceeds.
They did not take any valuable items.
That detail activated suspicions of a drug attack, hours after the Government of Santa Fe released images of a Bukele-style search at the Piñero prison, where high-profile prisoners linked to drug trafficking are housed.
Héctor Figueroa, one of the taxi drivers murdered in Rosario.
Around 11:30 p.m. this Wednesday, meanwhile, Diego Alejandro Celentano appeared in the front of his vehicle, shot in the head.
"Everything has to be in the application, they delivered it to him and the trip came out of the radio, they will have to explain how a trip came out of the app in that area," said Cintia Lares, his widow.
Hours after the crimes, investigators discovered that both men were killed with the same gun.
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