Overview
- Mendieta was detained on February 24 in the Las Flores neighborhood by the PDI’s High-Profile Search Unit under a federal order from Judge Aldo Alurralde.
- He had been a fugitive since December 2024, with a national reward of 5,000,000 pesos offered for information leading to his capture.
- Investigators accuse him of leading a structure that sold and distributed narcotics in Punta Norte and surrounding areas of Santa Fe.
- Four members of the group recently accepted abbreviated-trial convictions at the Federal Oral Court in Santa Fe, receiving three-year sentences, with Eduardo Alejandro Santa Cruz’s term unified to five years.
- Raids on December 4, 2024 seized drug doses, precision scales, phones, and cash, and the court ordered the seized items remitted to the federal judge handling the case.