Seeking Loan Danilo Peñathe 5-year-old boy who disappeared in Corrientes, moved this Sunday to the Chaco province. The measure was taken after the Federal Justice of Goya arranged to raid two homes in Resistencialinked to ex-military Carlos Pérez —one of the new detainees in the case—.
During the operationor a weapon, magazines and cartridges were foundin addition to a DVR with the building’s security cameras, cell phones and fingerprints that must be compared.
The Chaco Police and the Federal Resistance Unit Division carried out raids this Sunday morning in two houses located on Pasaje Humaitá 1310 and Necochea 915 streets. Personnel from the Canes Department also collaborated in the procedures.
Also present at the scene were the Deputy Chief of the Chaco Police, Commissioner General Manuel Victoriano Silva; the executive director of the Center for Police Analysis, Command and Control (CEAC), Commissioner General Cristian Antonio Durán; the Director General of Investigations, Commissioner General Roberto Gamboa; and the director of the Investigative Police, Commissioner General José Martínez.
In both homes, the dogs Baisha and Zaya checked the area, but the result was negative.. Likewise, there was the collaboration of the Personal History Department-Traces Section, which created eight fingerprints for comparison.
The apartment on Necochea Street is the one used by the ex-military Carlos Pérez when he went to Chaco to visit his daughterwho studies at the university of that province.
There they seized a nine-millimeter Browning pistol; three chargers; 65 nine millimeter caliber cartridges; 72 nine-millimeter caliber pods served; 190 7.65 caliber cartridges with their respective magazines; a DVR of the building’s security cameras; a BGH Notebook computer; and a tablet.
Meanwhile, in the house on Pasaje Humaitáwhere Pérez’s ex-wife livesthey seized nine cell phones of different brands and models, 218,800 pesos and 7 dollars, which were later returned to the owner of that home.
Search for Loan: how many are detained
Ten days after the disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña, investigators focused on finding out who was behind the kidnapping of the minor. In total, they are – until now – six people arrested in the case.
Until this week, and after a new reconstruction of the incident, there were three detainees: Bernardino Benítez, the boy’s uncle; Daniel Ramírez, known as Fierrito, and Mónica del Carmen Millapi from Neuquén. All were charged with abandonment of person. Millapi and Benítez had testified this Thursday for the first time in this case. According to sources with access to the investigation, both maintained their stories: Loan, they claimed, had gotten lost while looking for oranges.
Meanwhile, on Saturday the provincial justice, where the file for Loan’s disappearance is being processed and whose representatives had ordered in the last few hours the measures of evidence on the cars of a couple who participated in the lunch prior to the disappearance, resulted in three new arrests.
These are two men and a woman. The detained municipal official, identified as Victoria Caillava, had participated in lunch at Loan’s grandmother’s house a few minutes before the minor’s trace was lost. Likewise, another of the new people involved in Loan’s disappearance is the commissioner of 9 de Julio, Walter MacieHe, the officer who was initially in charge of the investigation.
In recent days, the mayor of that town of 2,500 inhabitants had made public his suspicions about that police officer. The third detainee, the husband of the municipal official, is Carlos perez. Although it was initially revealed that this man was a former member of the Prefecture, he is actually an officer who retired in 2017 from the Navy with the rank of ship captain.
