There are already four people in custody, and suspicions of a drug trafficking-related retaliation are growing
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As the investigation into the brutal murder of Brenda del Castillo (20), Morena Verdi (20), and Lara Morena Gutiérrez (15) progresses, the judiciary has confirmed the arrest of four individuals allegedly involved in the crime.
Although their identities have not been officially disclosed, chilling details have emerged regarding their possible connection to drug trafficking networks and the activities they were engaged in at the time of the raid.
One of the strongest hypotheses being considered by the prosecution points to a "mexicaneada": a term used in the world of street-level drug dealing to describe the theft of drugs or money between gangs.
According to this line of investigation, one of the young women may have kept substances or cash belonging to a Peruvian drug group, which would have triggered a planned criminal act of revenge.
Among those arrested are two couples. One of them was found cleaning the crime scene: this involves a 19-year-old man and his girlfriend, who were in the Florencio Varela house where the bodies were later found buried.
According to attorney Fito Labaqué on Mujeres Argentinas, the young woman's mother stated that both were there because they had been "hired to clean" by another relative, supposedly without knowing what had happened.
Una de las chicas tendría contacto con uno de sus asesinos
However, during the operation it was confirmed that they were removing traces of blood, which casts doubt on that version.
The other couple arrested is believed to be directly linked to the property where the triple femicide occurred. Both are reportedly of Peruvian nationality, and one of the men is said to have direct ties to a drug network in villa 1-11-14, located in Bajo Flores, Buenos Aires City.
According to the reconstruction carried out by journalist Pampa Mónaco, this man is also said to own a motel near the raided residence, which reinforces the suspicion that this was a premeditated crime with covert logistics.
Investigators believe the motive for the crime is linked to drug trafficking, and more specifically to a settling of scores. In this regard, they are analyzing the possibility that one or more of the victims may have involuntarily participated in an operation that went wrong and resulted in the punishment that cost them their lives.
"The people responsible are not four nobodies. What matters is knowing who is behind the murderers' house," Labaqué warned on television, emphasizing that the current arrests may be just the tip of the iceberg.
