Overview
- Police stopped a vehicle in the Nuevo Alberdi neighborhood on Thursday and found Yanina Carina Alvarado in public carrying a .22-caliber pistol with its serial number filed off, and two men who were with her were also detained.
- Alvarado had been under house arrest since August 2024 despite a unified 11-year sentence handed down in March 2023 for two narcotics convictions.
- Federal prosecutors immediately asked the court to revoke her domiciliary detention and order her urgent transfer to a penitentiary to begin serving the 11-year term, and the judge’s decision is still pending.
- The weapon with its serial number removed exposes Alvarado to separate illegal-weapons charges, which prosecutors cite as new evidence that she should be held in custody.
- The case connects to longer-running narcotics probes in Rosario, including a 2020 TOE raid and the fact that her brother Esteban Alvarado is jailed in Ezeiza, and authorities say the arrest could strengthen efforts to enforce sentences and affect courtroom scheduling for an imminent third trafficking trial.