Wave of Raids on Rosario Drug Lords Jailed for Crime in Newell Court and Shooting in Marcos Paz

A month after the “random” kidnapping followed by the death of Lorenzo “Jimi” Altamirano outside Newell’s Stadium and the Marcos Paz prison drug shooting that occurred in November, Santa Fe and federal courts have executed a series of raids motivated by the two events in Rosario and in the federal prisons of Ezeiza, Marcos Paz and Rawson. One of the proceedings was carried out in the administrative offices of Marcos Paz for alleged “structural complicity” of the Federal Penitentiary Service with Los Monos leader Ariel Máximo “Guille” Cantero, imprisoned there. From what you hear, he uses the landline and receives cell phones.

Officers were ordered to joint tasks between prosecutors Provincial officers Matías Edery and Luis Schiappa Pietra of the Organized Crime Agency, Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 2 -in charge of Paula Moretti- and PROCUNAR -whose head is Diego Iglesias-. In the prison premises, the proceedings were carried out by the Federal Police, and in Rosario they were carried out by the Intelligence Division of the Criminal Investigation Agency. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office No. 1 of Morón also participated in the proceedings.

From the investigation into the crime of the 28-year-old young man, which occurred on February 1 in front of door 6 of the colossus Marcelo Bielsa, it is clear that he would have been the product of a violent internship between two Los Monos factions. On one side, Leandro “Pollo” Vinardi, Damián “Toro” Escobar and Nicolás “Pupito” Avalle -all detained in Ezeiza prison-, and on the other, Rodolfo Héctor “Eri” Masini, Leandro “Gordo” Vilches and Pablo Nicolás Camino – housed in Rawson Federal Prison.

The federal prison of Marcos Paz, where “Guille” Cantero is being held, top boss of Los Monos, was killed last November, with a dozen blows received. The gunmen left a piece of cardboard that reads: “Stop executing Guille Cantero or we will kill the prison service. You don’t fuck with the mafia”. A few hours before the attack, the alleged perpetrators of the intimidation filmed themselves with several pistols and showed the text they were about to post in the prison complex where the head of Los Monos is staying. a video that reached the C5N channel.

Among the evidence of the investigation it was possible to establish that Altamirano was killed on an alleged order of the prisoners of Masini-Vilches, which used the violent work of Camino, which operates mainly in the western area of ​​​​Rosario. Among the hypotheses manipulated by the forensic investigators, figure a large dollar debt of Vinardi, Escobar and Avalle with the inmates of Rawson proceeds from a drug shipment. Meanwhile, another line of investigation indicates that the inmate is also responsible for a dispute between the two factions over the handling of Newell’s barra brava.

In this context, the provincial and federal prosecutors ordered the confiscation of the cells of all the aforementioned detainees, who in turn They had a constant conversation before and after the Altamirano crime with “Guille” Canterowho would have acted as mediator, according to the telephone taps in the file.

From telephone conversations, it also emerges that ‘Pollo’ Vinardi and ‘Toro’ Escobar slam Los Monos frontman for not ‘calming down’ Masini-Vilches-Camino trio. They even mention that they left placards with their name on the scenes of attacks, like the one that occurred on February 1 against the 26th sub-police station of Villa Gobernador Gálvez.

The requests to grab “Guille” Cantero were more than explicit. The fixed line of the pavilion is the problem:

An order signed by prosecutors Moretti and Iglesias requires finding “the archives of the subscriber numbers with which the inmate ARIEL MÁXIMO CANTERO communicated from the telephone line located in pavilion 7 of Residential Unit 2 of the Federal Penitentiary Complex Marcos Paz 2 and the holders of said subscribers, at least from March 2022 to date”, as well as information on the two fixed lines installed in 2019 and 2020 in this pavilion.

In March 2022, an SPF report told federal court that the Los Monos boss was “apparently establishing telephone communication from inside his cell, not from the payphone located in the SUM of the Pavilion.” SO, Cantero’s cell was confiscated. The phone was hidden inside his television, along with an old USB cable. On May 27, a second device was found in Cantero.

In the agenda, prosecutors requested that he be instructed, specifically, “the possible structural complicity of the authorities of the Federal Penitentiary Service which allowed CANTERO to have devices expressly prohibited.”

The Execution of Sentences Law 24660 establishes in its article 160 that prisons “must” install signal suppressors to prevent communications. Cantero, however, communicated freely. Moretti and Iglesias demanded that, once and for all, this regulation be respected within the SPF, which today sees its intelligence apparatus dismantled since 2020. The same request was made by Federal Court No. 3 of Rosario in 2022.

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