Overview
- A new oral trial opened in Santiago del Estero for ex‑policeman Franco Albornoz, accused in the 2016 in‑station killing of fellow officer Christian Carrizo.
- Peru’s Organized Crime Prosecutor in Lima Noroeste won 36 months of preventive detention for Martina Hernández after a court revoked her house arrest for lack of medical backing.
- Police in La Plata arrested 19‑year‑old Santino Ezequiel Piedrabuena in the Nov. 10 killing of Hugo Agustín González and seized ammunition and phones as a second suspect remains under investigation.
- Tucumán prosecutors formally charged three officers, including former regional chief Gustavo Javier Beltrán, over the alleged use of detainees as labor and sought preventive detention, with a coercive‑measures hearing postponed to Friday.
- Michoacán’s attorney general said the bodyguards of slain mayor Carlos Manzo remain in service and will be summoned again to testify as the probe continues.