The prosecutor of District 1, Shift 4 of Córdoba, Rubén Caro, charged a 911 video surveillance camera operator of the security force who allegedly leaked data to a car thief gang that fell at the end of May.
The revelation arose from the opening of cell phones of those detained in that operation. In one of the conversations, the operator exchanged information with one of the accused who made up the gang that stole cars.
Operation Hydra
At the end of last May, the prosecutor and the Police dismantled a gang that was dedicated to hiring third parties to steal cars. In the operation called “Hydra” auto parts, forged vehicles, weapons, marijuana and dollars were seized and 21 people were detained.
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 a long criminal record, 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
Within the framework of the case, the prosecutor charged a civilian employee who operated the Police 911 video surveillance cameras for allegedly revealing secrets to the gang.
On the administrative side, the General Directorate of Police Conduct Control intervened, which gave immediate participation to the Security Forces Conduct Tribunal.
For this reason, the suspect (contracted civilian staff) had her contract with the Police terminated, as confirmed by 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 are the chats with a member of the Hydra organization. It does not emerge from these conversations that she manipulated domes, but rather that she passed 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 Valentino Blas Correas crime case, the Anticorruption 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.
