why they were able to serve their sentence outside of prison

The eight members of a gang that entered the northern part of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to rob houses, and among the victims were the actor couple Arturo Puig (81) and Selva Alemán (80), requested a conviction a shortened processin which they admitted to being guilty of at least eleven robberies.

The agreement was presented by prosecutor Dante Morosi of the Attorney General’s Office No. 8 before the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court (TOCC) No. 18. In the decision, the representative of the State Ministry requested that the eight defendants be convicted a single sentence of six years house arrest.

Only in the case of Cristian Robledo (33), one of the defendants, did the public prosecutor’s office request a higher sentence, namely seven and a half years, as he had already received a sentence of two years and ten months for a case from 2022.

The request for an abbreviated trial is an agreement between the prosecutor and the defense attorney and must be accepted by the victim. This means that the defendant admits the crime with which he is accused and serves a lesser sentence than provided for in the Criminal Code. This procedure cannot be chosen by perpetrators of serious crimes.

According to the order of November 11th TOCC No. 18 judges must respond if they accept the agreement or when the eight are invited to an oral debate.

Prosecutor José María Campagnoli and his team in charge of the Saavedra and Núñez District Attorney’s Office investigated at least 11 robberies performed by this band.

The attacks were carried out in different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, although the characteristics were similar. The thieves worked in groups of at least three people – there were up to eight – who wore dark clothing, covered their faces and wore gloves. They had plastic seals in case they encountered the victims.

“Mainly, the work of this organization was aimed at committing crimes against property, people, administration and public religion, while documenting its intervention more than a dozen very serious attacks “The crimes were committed in the early hours of the morning in occupied private homes and share a remarkable common typology,” the prosecutor said in his verdict at the trial.

They arrived in high-end cars such as a Citroën C4 Cactus, a Peugeot 208, a Fiat 500, a Jeep Renegade, a Ford Ranger Raptor or an Audi A1. “They had an expensive car fleet”Justice said. They entered after breaking bars, breaking locks or lifting gates.

“This band demonstrated the use of a high degree of pre-organization and joint action“, coordinated, which aimed to increase the chances of success in both expropriation and subsequent impunity, since it took several precautions so as not to leave direct traces of its intervention in each case,” described the prosecutor’s office.

One of the most important data that the investigation was able to collect is that before committing the crimes, the gang used two “meeting points” far from the homes of their victims. These places were located at the intersection of Avenida Alberdi and Saladillo in Mataderos. and Zuviría and Plenty in Parque Chacabuco.

The neighborhoods chosen for the attacks were Belgrano, Colegiales, Núñez, Caballito, Villa del Parque, Coghlan, Villa Devoto and Villa Urquiza.

“Investigators realized that the gang was marking the houses through their designs. They were also looking for a garage so they could enter more easily”; a detective told Clarin.

There was a lightning raid in the middle of the night in the Belgrano district. In just 10 minutes, the thieves parked their vehicle, climbed over the bars, broke a window, broke into the house and took advantage of the residents’ absence to take possession of the house. a haul that included dollars, jewelry and watches. The victims, Arturo Puig and Selva Alemán, died in September last year.

The suspects – probably at least three – were the last to carry out the plan March 29, 2024as the actor and director became known for several television hits such as: “Big Father”was admitted to the Zabala Clinic with dengue fever in the care of his wife, who is also the protagonist of several soap operas and plays.

In the few minutes they were on the property, they managed to snag two pairs of amber Swarovski earrings with silver stones; five watches from Chronograph, Victorinox, Emporio Armani and Tag Heuer; three thousand dollars; a gold-plated necklace; seven silver bracelets; a necklace from the jewelry and clothing store Belgiorno. They used at least one vehicle to escape, a Citroën C4 Cactus.

The gang’s other robberies committed between March and August 2024 include the robbery of a property in Colegiales, where they committed the costliest riot: $70,000.

In another incident, the loot was also important: six semi-automatic pistols, 13 million pesos and another thousand dollars. After this robbery, one of the defendants paid for a ticket to Spain in cash with a dollar bill.

After painstaking investigative work by the public prosecutor’s office and investigators from the Image Extraction and Analysis Department, the Surveillance Department and the Community Investigations Division (DIC) No. 13 of the city police, eight of the suspects were arrested at the end of August 2024. And there are others three refugees.

“It was a super band. They had an incredible standard of living, all based on a life involving illegal activities. “One of the detainees paid $3,400 a month in cash to rent a two-room apartment in Puerto Madero,” confided a source consulted.

During the investigation, it was discovered that some of the defendants were part of the so-called “gang of fraudsters” who were arrested in 2021 for posing as operators of an internet service in order to deceive customers and thus break into their homes to pat them down.

The arrests took place in various apartments and properties in Puerto Madero and exclusive private neighborhoods. An investigator reported that among the seized vehicles was a Ranger Raptor valued at nearly $130,000; a BMW 135i valued at 100,000 “Greens,” the same value as another of the seized cars, a Mercedes Benz GLC 300, in addition to high-end motorcycles and UTV utility vehicles.

A special detail: neither a dollar, a peso nor stolen jewelry or watches were found.