In a display of professionalism that honors the commitment of the State to citizen security, the 15-year-old Luciana Alarcón was found alive and in good physical health on the afternoon of this Tuesday, June 9. The discovery occurred at approximately 4:45 PM in the town of Jesús María, marking the end of a search that mobilized massive resources immediately after her disappearance the previous Monday. The young girl was found specifically in an abandoned house located across from the Courthouse, about 6 kilometers from where she had last been seen.
The effectiveness of the operation was the direct result of unprecedented technical coordination. The Ministry of Security of the Nation activated the Sofia Alert protocol at 10:40 AM, a mass dissemination system for cases of “high risk” that alerted all federal forces. At the provincial level, Minister Juan Pablo Quinteros supervised a mega-operation that included nearly 100 police officers, more than 20 vehicles, a helicopter, fire department personnel, and the High-Risk Units Department (DUAR). According to the Secretary of Government of Colonia Caroya, César Seculini, at the time she was located, the minor “was with another person”.
The case originated on Monday at noon in Colonia Caroya, when the young girl left the Presbítero Bonoris Secondary School. The local mayor, Paola Nanini, specified that the minor was supposed to wait for her sister to walk the 7 kilometers that separate the institution from her home, but she left the place before that. After the family reported her disappearance, prosecutor Guillermo Monti, from the Jesús María Instruction Prosecutor's Office, directed an investigation that included the analysis of security cameras, movements on social media, and cell phone records, since the young girl's phone had turned off after she left school.
