Overview
- Police detained a 36-year-old nurse and her 40-year-old partner inside an 81-year-old man’s Retiro apartment after the building porter called officers, with the raid taking place March 26 and the unit found ransacked.
- The pair told officers the hospitalized owner had lent them the keys to pick up clothes, yet they could not show any authorization or documents to support that claim.
- Security cameras in the building recorded the suspects entering, and police reported furniture and belongings overturned as if valuables were being searched.
- The Unidad de Flagrancia Este, led by fiscal Pagliareti, ordered both held on a case labeled attempted usurpation, with an aggravated theft charge also reported that carries a possible one to six years in prison under statute.
- Following the arrests, the city prosecutor’s office assigned a police guard to protect the patient in hospital, and investigators are now checking for any prior link to the suspects and whether they exploited a caregiving role.