Overview
- Federal judge Jorge Rodríguez processed Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, known as 'Pequeño J', with preventive detention as a co-author of the Florencio Varela triple homicide in a ruling issued on Friday, June 12.
- The court says the 20-year-old made 'essential' contributions to the criminal plan, including planning, logistics, securing the place of captivity and controlling the victims, and charged him with aggravated homicide under multiple aggravating circumstances that could carry life imprisonment.
- Investigators and prosecutors have broadened the inquiry beyond a suspected revenge over a stolen cocaine shipment to include formal lines of investigation into human trafficking, sexual exploitation and money laundering.
- Pequeño J was extradited from Peru in early May and is held at the federal Marcos Paz complex; other suspects, including Matías Agustín Ozorio, were detained in Lima and remain under investigation.
- The defense says it will appeal the processing, arguing the case rests on interested-witness testimony and an unattributed phone call, while prosecutors plan further forensic steps such as DNA tests and analysis of clothing and blood traces.