Patricio Valentín Garcíathe first of the five arrested for the crime of Umma Aguilera, the daughter of a custodian of the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, will be released in the next few hours by Justice after considering that the evidence collected against the suspect does not place him as part of the gang that killed the 9-year-old girl last Monday in Villa Centenario, Lomas de Zamora district.
The head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) number 18 of the Lomas de Zamora Judicial Department, Pablo Rossi, made the request to the Guarantee Judge because “in function of the
evidence collected so far, it is not possible to sustain his detention.
«Attentive to the future of the investigation, there is no evidence that allows us to maintain that he is one of the authors of the incident and, on the contrary, evidence emerged that would indicate that he did not participate in it»completed Rossi’s request.
Likewise, it was added: “On the contrary, with respect to the other detained co-defendants, the Prosecutor’s Office understands that, at least at the moment, we have evidence to support their direct intervention in the fact investigated.”
García, 22, has assured since the Buenos Aires Police officers arrested him that he had nothing to do with Uma’s murder, beyond some alleged connection with the gang that investigators estimated.
The other four detainees, in principle, are located by security cameras in the area or by witness accounts at the scene of the incident.but the now released could not be identified.
Another piece of evidence that favored García was that the geolocation of his cell phone placed him very far from where Uma was killed.
Precisely, García’s lawyers, Edwin Henry Valenzuela Rojas and Ramón Elías SaltoWhen he appeared before the prosecutor, they told him that they had witnesses and film material that corroborated that
His client had been elsewhere last Monday morning, when four criminals murdered the girl in an attempt to steal her father’s car.
This suspect had been arrested hours after the murder when members of the Buenos Aires Police saw him next to the black Toyota Corolla used to approach the guard and abandoned moments after shooting and killing the girl.
The uniformed officers understood that García had approached the vehicle to rule out something and they considered that it had to do with the incident.
Those arrested for the crime of Umma Aguilera
The other four arrested, detained by the Homicide Division and the Organized Robbery Investigation Division of the Federal Police (both belonging to the Superintendence of Federal Investigations), They would be directly related to the murder of Uma due to different evidence collected.
On Friday night, the last suspect for the murder of Uma was arrested in the town of Alejandro Korn, Buenos Aires party of San Vicente.
The prisoner, 21 yearswas identified as Ariel Acuña Vega, aka “Yes”, and he was hiding in the house of some of his girlfriend’s relatives.
First, without counting García, the one who was arrested was Nicolás Axel Emiliano Rojas, nicknamed «Pelusa» and 20 years old, who is the accused by the Justice of fire the shot that killed the minor.
In the series of operations they were also arrested Miguel Pastor “Patoto” Romero Molinas (20 years old) and his brother, a 17-year-old minor whose initials are GRM