On Sunday the 31st National Gendarmerie arrested a 47-year-old woman at the Pino Hachado International Pass who was wanted 10 years ago for the crime of a hotelier in Junín de los Andes. The accused was carrying out the immigration procedures to cross into Chile with her family. This Monday the hearing was held to determine what will happen to the detainee.
The hotelier’s crime occurred in 2014, when the woman along with an accomplice stayed at the Montañés inn and at night, with the intention of robbingThey embroidered, tied up and beat the victim to death. Since that fact An investigation began that some time later managed to find a man involved in the murder, but not the woman.
Finally on Sunday and after 10 years of what happened, the accused could be found. According to reports from the National Gendarmerie, The arrest “took her by surprise” but she did not resist For this reason, he was transferred to the Zapala section to take tests to confirm his identity. After seeing that she presented an arrest warrant, The woman was housed in police station No. 25 until she could be received by Justice.
Judicial sources confirmed this afternoon to Diario RÍO NEGRO that today, Monday, April 1, sand the hearing was held for which “she was accused of the crime of homicide on the occasion of robbery, as a co-author.” They detailed that the legal assistant of the public prosecutor’s office, Elizabeth Pellicer, requested that she remain detained for four months, andThe guarantee judge who intervened ordered preventive detention for a period of one month in order to continue with the investigation into the detained woman.
Who was the businessman murdered in 2014 in Junín de los Andes
Between the night of April 13 and the early morning of the 14th of that year, the crime of a hotel businessman from Junín de los Andes shocked the Andean area. It was about Alfredo Roca Jalil, 66 years old, owner of the “El Montañés” inn and a well-known neighbor in his community. He was found dead in one of the rooms of his own inn, tied up and with evidence of having been subjected to a savage beating.
In November 2014, a popular jury found guilty Gabriel Salcedo as co-author of the “robbery followed by death” of Roca Jalil and on January 15, the sentence of twenty-two years in prison. Among the tests, an expert detected traces of DNA on a pair of glasses found at the crime scene and which were 99.9 percent compatible with the samples taken from Salcedo. Also key was the expertise of Criminalistics who recovered a fingerprint on the door of a closet, compatible with Salcedo’s by 12 points of coincidence.
The trial testimony of the victim’s son, located Salcedo and his fugitive companion, like the same people he received at the family inn that November 13th. Another valuable testimony was provided by the taxi driver who took the couple from the terminal to the vicinity of the inn.
Salcedo had arrived at the trial after being arrested in Buenos Aires shortly after the event. Of the woman who had accompanied him that night, and who managed to be arrested yesterday after 10 years of being on the run, the investigators did not have any information about her whereabouts.