In addition, the head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 9 of General Rodríguez, Alejandra Rodriguezanalyzed the evidence seized during the raids carried out at the time of L-Gante’s arrest, including his BMW car and three replica firearms, before investigating him tomorrow
The spokesmen specified that during the searches carried out in four properties of the cumbia singer 420, three replicas of 9-millimeter pistols were found, a cell phone and the car in which it is presumed that he held the two victims captive.
“The aftershocks, not having the character of a firearm per se, do not generate any aggravation of your situation”a source linked to the investigation clarified to the Télam agency.
Regarding the BMW of L-Ghent, judicial sources confirmed that everything indicates that it is the same one in which, according to the complainant, he and another person were deprived of their liberty for about 20 minutes.
What the prosecutor now seeks to establish is whether, as she suspects, there were more people involved in the event.
What does the complaint against L-Gante say?
The complaint that led to the singer’s arrest was made on May 27 by Gaston Torresa neighbor of the Valenzuela family, who lives in the Bicentenario neighborhood of General Rodríguez, in the western suburbs.
According to Torres, on the morning of that day, when leaving a dance venue located in that town there was an incident with several young members of the so-called cumbia 420 “La Mafilia”, the group of friends and musicians to which L-Gante belongs.
After that, always according to the complainant, members of that same group went to his house and physically assaulted both him and his family.
As a result, members of the Urban Guard for Citizen Protection of the Municipality of General Rodríguez arrived at the scene to separate and identify the aggressors.
According to the accusation, when the municipal guards had already withdrawn, L-Gante, who that night performed a show in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, went to Torres’s house, threatened him with a firearm and forced him to Get in your BMW car.
A few meters away, a young woman, a neighbor of the musician, who had participated in the first discussion with L-Gante’s friends, was also intercepted and forced to get on the same vehicle, the complainant added.
According to the investigators, the 23-year-old singer illegally deprived him of his liberty in order to get him to intercede so that his “people” are not arrested, referring to the members of “La Mafilia”.
“First, he deprived the complainant of his freedom and then the second victim. He kept them for around 20 minutes inside the car, according to records of the geolocation of the victims’ cell phones, and then released them at a service station in the area, where they were captured by a local security camera,” said an investigation.
Following the complaint, prosecutor Rodríguez took statements from the victims and witnesses to the events, after which she requested the recordings from the security cameras of the General Rodríguez Operational Monitoring Center (COM), from private locations and from the security booths. tolls in the area and cross-referenced and analyzed the cell phone equipment, their ownership and the geolocation of antennas.
With the evidence gathered, the prosecution requested the arrest of Valenzuela before the Court of Guarantees 2, in charge of Judge Gabriel Castro, who validated the request and ordered four raids, one of them in sector 1 of the Club Banco Provincia gated community, where he was finally arrested yesterday.
Previous legal cases of L-Ghent
L-Gante had been involved in another legal case in February 2022, when he was arrested along with his then partner and mother of his daughter, accused of death threats and injuries against a young man with whom he had a dispute in the neighborhood in the their relatives live in General Rodríguez.
“I refused to testify. I don’t know what weapon they are talking about, they found a toy weapon on my mother,” the musician himself assured the press at the time after that investigation, and maintained that it was all “a clown.” and that those who testified against him “lie.”
The young man then said that he never had problems with his neighbors in the Bicentenario neighborhood, however, prosecutor Rodríguez accused him and his partner after the statements of at least five witnesses and the analysis of footage in which they are seen together with a group of people going to rebuke a 21 year old.
That boy denounced that on Saturday, February 5, L-Gante threatened him with death and then fired a shot at the ground.
Source: Ambito
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