For now they are six accused in the investigation into the disappearance of little Loan Danilo Peña, in the small town of 9 de Julio, Corrientes. 11 days after his disappearance, on June 13, there is no firm clue as to where he is and The hypothesis of a kidnapping for alleged human trafficking grows.
The three new arrests for the disappearance of little Loan in Corrientes They will be investigated this Monday for the first time under the hypothesis that he was kidnapped. These are Victoria Caillava, Carlos Pérez and Walter Maciel, the latter the commissioner, who were all arrested last Friday.
The first two because odor traces of Loan were found in two vehicles: one with whom they went to the grandmother’s field to share lunch with her and the little one, and the other with whom they traveled the next day to Resistencia, Chaco.
While, to the police officer Maciel because it allowed the couple to travel to the city of Resistencia in the middle of the investigation.
Why the search for Loan could go to Federal Justice
The doubt is the accusation that prosecutors Juan Carlos Castillo and Guillermo Barry will carry out against the new detainees. Initially the first three were investigated for abandonment of person. If they maintain the hypothesis of a kidnapping, they will have to be investigated again.
For this reason, this Monday’s hearing with the accused is key. YesProsecutors are expected to request preventive detention and present the evidence they have against them.
The head of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of the first instance of Goya, Mariano De Guzmán, requested this Sunday the collaboration of the Office of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prosecutor (PROTEX) in the framework of a federal investigation opened after Loan’s disappearance.
According to what TN could know, In the next few hours the case could go to the Federal Justicesince it has more resources than ordinary Justice.
Search for Loan: who are the six detainees
Antonio Benitez, Loan’s uncle, who participated in the lunch at the 5-year-old’s grandmother’s house, was the first arrested. He is the one who supposedly took Loan to get oranges.
Mónica del Carmen Millapi and her husband, Daniel “Fierrito” Ramírez -friends of Benítez-, participated in the lunch on Thursday, June 13 and also went to pick oranges with Benítez, Loan and four other children.
Victory Caillavahad participated in lunch at Loan’s grandmother’s house a few minutes before the minor’s trace was lost.
Carlos perezher husband and former member of the Navy retired in 2017
Walter Macielthe officer who was initially in charge of the investigation.
With information from El Litoral and Noticias Argentinas
