The prosecutor of District 1 Shift 4 of Córdoba, Rubén Caro, accused a security force 911 video surveillance camera operator of having leaked data to a car thief gang that fell at the end of May.
The revelation came from the opening of cell phones of those arrested in that operation. In one of the conversations, the operator exchanged information with one of the accused who was part of the gang that stole cars.
Operation “Hydra”
At the end of May, the prosecutor and the police dismantled a gang that was engaged in hiring third parties to steal cars. In the operation called “Hidra” they seized auto parts, fake vehicles, weapons, marijuana and dollars and arrested 21 people.
The measure was carried out simultaneously in Córdoba and four other provinces: San Juan, La Rioja, Catamarca and Santiago del Estero.
One of them would be the leader, who was in charge of the logistics for the sale of parts and the placement of cars. He was serving his house arrest sentence in a home that was the epicenter of the raids.
Located behind the Las Palmas Club, this address would have been the heart of the real network of scrapyards where, from time to time, someone would arrive with a new car in the early hours of the morning, according to the investigations.
According to investigators, the dilapidated house belongs to one of the ringleaders, but he did not work alone. Together with other henchmen, all with extensive criminal records, they dedicated themselves to hiring young people from different neighborhoods and homeless people.
The homes where they operated looked like “ranches,” according to the investigations. But inside, under mattresses and among the garbage, there were hidden vehicle parts and wads of national and foreign currency.
New detainee
In the context of the case, the prosecutor charged a civil employee who operated the 911 police surveillance cameras for allegedly revealing secrets to the gang.
The General Directorate of Police Conduct Control intervened on the administrative side, immediately involving the Security Forces Conduct Tribunal.
For this reason, the suspect (a hired civilian) had her contract with the Police terminated, according to the Minister of Security, Juan Pablo Quinteros.
Did not manipulate domes
Police sources assured that it is impossible for anyone inside to guarantee that the dome turns around at a certain time. “Yes, it can happen that a dome is controlled, suppose in Plaza España, and someone is told that the camera is looking at where the McDonald’s is. And you can go around, but the domes are controlled by several operators. They cannot guarantee control of all the domes,” they detailed.
What brought down the young 911 operator were the chats with a member of the Hydra organization. These conversations do not show that she manipulated domos, but that she passed on data and information.
Another case of police corruption
With this, corruption scandals continue to occur within the Police and the Penitentiary Service, with officers charged with multiple crimes: violence, theft, fraud and drugs.
Days ago and in the context of the case of the crime of Valentino Blas Correas, the Anti-Corruption prosecutor Franco Mondino charged three former officials from the provincial Executive, the former Minister of Security Alfonso Mosquera; his right-hand man, Lucas Mezzano, and former commissioner inspector Gonzalo Cumplido.
In the 2023 trial, First Corporals Lucas Gómez and Javier Catriel Alarcón had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
