Argentina - Loan Peña, 5, went orange pick w/fam, shoe found, local police chief arrested, as well as others, Nueve de Julio, 13 Jun 2024

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It's looking like Loan was found at the shack and then disappeared after that. Commissioner Maciel needs to tell us who he talked to that said Loan was at the shack.

How far is the shack from the grandmother's home was there any mention of that?
 
Judge Cristina Penzo ordered the creation of an economic and social profile for all those involved in the Loan case. In this regard, it was decided to obtain information about the missing minor, his family and all those detained. According to the report to which Noticias Argentinas had access, Penzo requested that Loan's social, sports and family core be determined, as well as his relationship at school and his communications notebook.

Regarding the family context, the judge said that social networks will be analyzed, as well as transactions from one month before the child's disappearance until now. In addition to these measures, reports were requested from the real estate registry and the vehicle registry.

Penzo also said that the validity of the immigration alerts for the child and the eight detainees will be confirmed. Samples of male DNA found in the van of the arrested couple are transferred to Buenos Aires.

 
As soon as he steps into court to testify, lawyer Fernández Codazzi will be arrested. He is expected to appear before Judge Pozzer Penzo in the next few hours; news is also expected regarding Senator Pellegrini, who is close to Governor Valdés.

 
Rafael Horacio Miranda, known as “El Barbudo”, was named as a new suspect in the disappearance of Loan Peña. According to sources, he is the private secretary and driver of the governor. The “Bearded Man” is identified as the person who transported Laudelina Peña , the minor’s aunt, in a vehicle on the day of her statement. This information came to light after the recent statements of Laudelina and other witnesses, which placed Miranda in a relevant role during the initial investigations and subsequent transfers of key witnesses.

 

The entire leadership of the Corrientes Police fell.​

At 2:00 p.m. the new leadership of the Corrientes Police takes office, 2 and a half hours before the Great March for Loan Peña. The new chief of the Corrientes Police will be Major Commissioner Miguel Ángel Leguizamón, and Deputy Chief Walter Acebal. Governor Gustavo Valdés must now make changes in his cabinet of collaborators, before the tide reaches his office.

The Loan case has therefore cost Commissioner Arnaldo Molina his position as head of the police force, as well as his deputy, Jorge Cristaldo. Both were removed.


Police leadership in Corrientes was removed more than a month after Loan was stolen.​

The decision to expel the head and deputy head of the provincial force was taken by Governor Gustavo Valdés, after Alfredo Vallejos assumed the position of Minister of Security, following the resignation of Buenaventura Duarte.

 
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According to Laudelina's testimony, she received money and threats to present a false version of an alleged accident, being transported for this purpose in Senator Pellegrini's van.

As a result, the court has summoned the senator as a witness, although he has refused to appear, arguing that he is protected by legislative immunity.

In the words of Mayor Ascúa: "It is crucial to ensure the presence of Senator Diego Pellegrini before the federal court, given his role as a witness in the investigation into the disappearance of the minor. Therefore, I urge the Provincial Senate to meet urgently to consider the revocation of his mandate due to his involvement in this case."

 
“Somewhere around 1.30 the radio rings and they tell him 'boss, we found the kid, he was in a shack, he was scared but he's okay,'” Loan's aunt recounted via Zoom in front of the Judge. “Everything was a joy, the commissioner came out and congratulated us, Ramírez and Millapi were there,” she said in her statement. According to the woman, at that moment Commissioner Walter Maciel left the place and told them “wait here, we're going to look for Loan who appeared.” In her statement, Laudelina assured that two other police officers who were at the place dressed in black and who were not from the place left with Ramírez and Millapi.

Loan's aunt said that after that they asked everyone to go down to Grandma Catalina's house, "that she had news" but that she did not hear the radio anymore. "We asked there and they told us they didn't know anything," she continued her story. "Then the commissioner came back with Báez and Antonio, they told us it was a lie, that the drone had caught a heat but it was nothing" Laudelina concluded her story to Pozzer Penzo.

Laudelina's story is also analyzed by the telephone expert's report on Monica Millapi's cell phone. In the analysis of the experts they found that around 2.15 in the morning, the woman wrote to her son that Loan had appeared, when the son asked her how he was, Millapi said that he did not know but the important thing is that he had appeared. In this case, the woman told her son, shortly before 7 in the morning that "in the end it was a false alarm, Loan is still missing."

At this stage, the courts are analyzing this statement with the possibility that there is a mix-up of the story with the knowledge of the case. “It could be a mistake or a new construction of the story” said judicial sources, based on the fact that there was no search with thermal drones that night, that search began days later. However, they are re-analyzing the story taking into account that it speaks again of the hovel and the abandoned school, two places that the complaint also indicated as possible for the concealment or transfer of the child.

 
I'm thinking that Loan didn't go back to his father, but went to look for that horse he rode there on. I remember them saying at lunch he was worried about the horse because it was loose outside. He had those oranges and wanted to feed them to the horse. That's why he initially wandered away - looking for that horse.
 
Carlos Pérez and María Victoria Caillava testified yesterday via video conference from the Salta prison. Caillava was the first to be questioned, while Pérez extended his statement for several hours. Both deny their involvement in the disappearance of Loan Danilo and detailed their version of events, contradicting some security camera recordings. Following the preliminary investigation of Carlos Pérez and María Victoria Caillava, the courts ordered seven searches in 9 de Julio.

Trying to find what these 7 searches are for...

 
Carlos Pérez and María Victoria Caillava testified yesterday via video conference from the Salta prison. Caillava was the first to be questioned, while Pérez extended his statement for several hours. Both deny their involvement in the disappearance of Loan Danilo and detailed their version of events, contradicting some security camera recordings. Following the preliminary investigation of Carlos Pérez and María Victoria Caillava, the courts ordered seven searches in 9 de Julio.

Trying to find what these 7 searches are for...


Is there a possibility that the police upwards, including a certain few at that lunch on June the 15th, are trying to pin it on some of the others that were also there that day?!?!

It isn't uncommon for corrupt police or police under orders to be brutal when individuals are in custody nor get false confessions or mislead the Media in every way possible.
 
I can't find anything about the 7 new raids/searches.

It looks like Caillava and Perez are saying they are innocent too though. I can't find much online yet. They were asked about the blood on their car and the dogs picking up Loan's scent on their car. They say they don't know why.

Today Commissioner Maciel is testifying and the ex-Commissioner Francisco Mendez. Millapi testifies Monday.
 
Is there a possibility that the police upwards, including a certain few at that lunch on June the 15th, are trying to pin it on some of the others that were also there that day?!?!

It isn't uncommon for corrupt police or police under orders to be brutal when individuals are in custody nor get false confessions or mislead the Media in every way possible.
Anything is possible at this point. I'm thinking even a stranger that was in the woods that day could have spotted the kids playing in the morning and waited for their opportunity to take the boy. This would have to be a neighbor within walking distance. I wonder if they have searched every house around there.
 
Found some info about Carlos Perez' tesitmony:

At the beginning of his statement, he clarified that the only people he knew were Catalina Peña, Loan's grandmother, and Laudelina Peña, the minor's aunt. At a quarter past two in the afternoon I was in a hurry to leave. José and I were left alone at the table, and the others went to look for tangerines. They came back soon and then we headed to the truck. At that moment we said goodbye to Laudelina. My wife then told me that Laudelina was going to look for a child who was returning but had not arrived. We did not know that he had gotten lost, we thought that her aunt was going to look for him, so we left along the country road," said Pérez.

Pérez says that when he arrived home there was no electricity. At that moment he received a call from his grandmother Catalina asking if Loan was hiding there. After ending the call, the former sailor said that his wife called producers who were near Catalina's house and then the police. "She called someone who was not on duty and told him that she was going to contact someone who was on duty," he said.

When they finish calling, they return to the grandmother's house. Both helped search for Loan in the woods. "At no time was a child heard screaming and he did not respond to the call of his name," he said. "At one point I saw Benítez arrive with his torso naked, sit down, drink a glass of water and leave again, and I didn't see him again. At ten to seven I told the commissioner to ask for dogs, he said he had already asked, I told him what had happened to me with the sheep and about the animals in the area that could have been the victim of some animal," he added.

Pérez also mentioned his stop at the hospital in the town of 9 de Julio. After accompanying the search, they both returned to their home. But at one point on the way, Caillava began to feel ill. "Her friend, the nurse Alicia, was there and gave her an injection. "We had a commitment to be in Corrientes the next day, and look for my daughter," the former sailor explains. Around six in the morning they leave for the capital. Caillava's husband says that his wife was treated in a laboratory and in a hospital.

"My wife tells me that she had spoken to the commissioner who told her that if necessary we would return, and she tells me that the police give her permission to do the paperwork she had to do. I had another paperwork, which is to collect a lawsuit for difference in salaries, and I had to make a transfer to a man for the purchase of a mobile home. Then I coordinated with Javier Pasco the transfer was about 2,200 dollars in pesos, he tells me that he preferred cash," he explains.

He then claims that he spent the day with his daughter in Resistencia and with his other daughter in Corrientes. During his statement, everything seems to indicate that during the trip they bought food, he walked with his two daughters and Caillava went to have a series of tests done.

He heard a neighbor say that after lunch the couple had washed the truck. "At no time was the truck washed," he emphasizes. "That night I was thinking about our vehicles, and I thought that someone might plant something in our vehicles and that's when I decided to call the commissioner. I asked my wife for his number because she had it saved because she is the secretary of the high school. So since he didn't answer me, I left him an audio, and I left him several audios," he said.

Regarding the case, he spoke of Catalina Peña, and said that “this was revenge,” and spoke of a very heavy family conflict, she did not speak to Loan's mother, she did not get along with her children's partners.

 
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Oh so Perez is pointing at the grandmother Catalina because she didn't like Loan's mother. Interesting.
 
Caillava's testimony doesn't add much, only that she has been an informant to the police for two years for drug trafficking. Both her and her husband say that Benitez didn't say a word at lunch.

There were articles a while ago saying that Benitez was seen without a shirt, then with a black shirt, then with a red or blue shirt. That's suspicious. A lot of times when criminals try to escape they change their clothing to not be recognized by strangers.
 
According to cell phone records and witness statements, prosecutors were able to establish that Benitez left the orange grove shortly after Loan disappeared. His communications and mobile data impacted the antennas of Mantilla at 3:28 p.m., Gobernador Martínez at 4:14 p.m., and Yataity Calle between 3:25 p.m. and 5:54 p.m.

When asked by the judge, he had certain inconsistencies when answering the long questioning. He couldn't explain his route through different areas far from Grandma Catalina's place and 9 de Julio when everyone was looking for Loan near the orange grove.


-As I recall, it was the lawyer of Benitez that was sent to Laudelina to coerce her into lying for him.
 
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Here is the shirt article:

LOAN CASE: the clues that complicate Antonio Benítez
  • 4 witnesses to the changes in his clothing: first with a bare torso, then with a red t-shirt and then a dark one.
  • He left ground zero and disappeared shortly after the boy disappeared.
  • They saw him on national route 123.
 

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