Overview
- Argentina’s Supreme Court rejected further appeals and left Pablo Torres Lacal’s nine‑year homicide sentence final for the 2016 Tigre boat crash that killed Manuel Storani and others.
- Peruvian prosecutors have asked a judge to order 18 months of pretrial detention for eight soldiers accused of killing five civilians in Colcabamba, alleging close‑range, disproportionate gunfire and saying investigators found no drugs or armed resistance.
- The State of Mexico prosecutor announced criminal charges against Tenancingo mayor Nancy Nápoles and five collaborators for an alleged staged kidnapping used to conceal missing municipal funds, and the mayor faces a July court hearing while her party has moved to suspend her rights.
- Provincial authorities in Argentina detained the police driver and a companion after an Infantería combi struck a motorcycle, killing two adults and injuring a child; the governor removed the Infantería chief and ordered an audit of the police medical certification unit amid questions about the driver’s fitness for duty.
- Regional police operations in Spain and several Argentine provinces produced arrests, weapons and drug seizures and homicide inquiries, underscoring active local enforcement even as major institutional cases advance to judicial decisions.