The Federal Court of Criminal Appeals validated the sentence of 7 years of imprisonment imposed to a detainee for drug trafficking for sending threatening messages from prison to officials in the province of Santa Fe. He had already been sentenced to 21 years for crimes related to drug trafficking.
The highest criminal court made up of judges Gustavo Hornos, Javier Carbajo and Mariano Borinsky rejected the appeal of the defense of Mauro Nahuel Novelino filed against the conviction handed down by the Second Federal Criminal Court of Rosario for the crime of aggravated coercion.
The events of the case date back to January 2023 and were committed by the accused while he was detained in the Marcos Paz federal prison. Novelino He was charged and sentenced for threaten the Minister of Security of Santa Fe, Sergio Maidana, and the mayor of Venado Tuerto, Leonel Chiarella through messages sent by WhatsApp.
Mauro Nahuel Novelino’s threats against officials from Marcos Paz
In his messages, the detainee demanded that officials not transfer him from one prison to another, given that, until that date, he had passed through several federal prisons (including CPF III in NOA, CPF I in Ezeiza, and UF 6 in Rawson), within the framework of his uninterrupted detention since July 2020 for crimes related to drug trafficking.
“Tell them to stop moving me around because there are bullets for everyone, starting with Chiarella,” Novelino allegedly said in one of the messages sent to Maidana’s cell phone. A second message arrived just days later: “Hmmm? There are bullets for everyone.”
The drug trafficker’s defense requested, among other things, that evidence be dismissed because the minister’s phone was not examined. However, the investigation found that the messages came from one of the 10 phones found on the drug trafficker in the various facilities where he was staying.
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Who is Mauro Nahuel Novelino, the drug trafficker from Venado Tuerto who threatened officials?
Novelino was also arrested and convicted for leading a criminal association operating in the town of Venado Tuerto, province of Santa Fe. Since April 2016, he has also been charged with crimes investigated by the provincial justice system.
While serving his sentence, Novelino He coordinated and managed the sale of drugs in Venado Tuerto, bought weapons and ammunition for the gang he led, and even made Snapchat with his girlfriend, Lucia Uberti, condemned for being “trigger gun” from the Rosario band “The Monkeys”.
The sentence of 7 years in prison, imposed after the oral debate and ratified by Cassation, is added to the sentenced to 21 years in prison that the same TOCF 2 of Rosario imposed on him, after splitting the process of the case, due to the abbreviated trial agreement held between the accused and the Public Prosecutor’s Office in relation to the facts related to the narcocriminality and one previous conviction of the provincial Justice.
Source: Ambito
