Overview
- Spain’s Guardia Civil, with Portugal’s Polícia Judiciária, detained four Portuguese suspects over a March Estremera drug ‘vuelco’ that left one man dead and another gravely injured, on counts of homicide and attempted homicide.
- In Argentina’s Pilar district, a family land dispute turned fatal as a 23-year-old allegedly killed his uncle with a baseball bat in Manuel Alberti; prosecutors reclassified the case to aggravated homicide under UFI Nº 1.
- Prosecutors in Argentina opened an imputación against fugitive Jonatan Jordán Peloc, alias “Camboya,” after his capture during a surveillance operation, tying him to a November 2024 Alta Tensión homicide and an attempted homicide.
- In Uruguay, an off-duty Guardia Republicana officer exchanged fire during an attempted motorcycle robbery on Ruta 1, killing one assailant and wounding another; Fiscalía de Flagrancia is leading the probe, and local reports say the survivor received a 22‑month sentence for robbery.
- In Peru, police arrested three alleged extortionists in Santa Anita—accusing a woman of hiding a gun in her one‑year‑old’s bag—and opened a case in Ate after a viral video of elder abuse, while separate investigations track a Los Olivos officer’s ICU recovery and a suspected revenge arson in Huanchaco.