More than 13 years after the disappearance of Maria Cashthey arrested Hector Romerotruck driver who last saw the 29-year-old girl on July 8, 2011 in Jump and main suspect in the case. He remained at the disposal of the Federal Justice and will be investigated this Wednesday.
His arrest had been ordered by the Federal Court of Guarantees No. 2 of Salta, in charge of the judge Mariela Giménez, and executed by National Gendarmerie personnel.
He was located in a family home in the Pereyra Rozas neighborhood, city of Salta. After the arrest warrant was read to him, he remained silent and was taken to the headquarters of the Salta Delegation of the Argentine Federal Police and was left incommunicado.
The Federal Justice decided to resume the investigation last Thursday, November 7, and the attorney general Eduardo Villalba summoned key witnesses to reconstruct the young woman’s itinerarycaptured at that time by the cameras located in the area of Popcorn, located about 50 kilometers from the city of Salta, the provincial capital.
Héctor Romero, the main suspect in the case
On the day of her disappearance, the young woman was hitchhiking on National Route N°34 and Romero picked her up. According to the 71-year-old man in his initial statement, he left her in the rotunda of the sanctuary of the Difunta Correawhere it was recorded on security camera images and his trail was lost, then he followed until Joaquín V. González. However, the researchers found contradictions and inconsistencies in the storyso this version was questioned.
Initially, the truck driver had not collaborated with the investigation and He was identified thanks to a witness who claimed to have seen María getting into his vehicle..
Another point that led the Justice Department to order the arrest of the suspect is that the expert reports indicated that it was “almost impossible to perform the maneuver described by the truck driver in that place”. They explained that “there is no braking time for a truck with the load it was carrying.”
It also caught the attention of investigators that Romero described the young woman “from top to bottom.” According to him, he did not remember how she was dressed on top or her face because, according to him, “her hair was disheveled and her loose hair covered her face.” However, other people involved and the toll security cameras indicate that María had her hair tied.
The disappearance of Maria Cash
The clothing designer, born in Buenos Aireshe disappeared July 8, 2011 in the province of Jump when I had 29 yearsand since then his case has been shrouded in a nebula no hard clues. María Cash took a bus at the Buenos Aires terminal Withdrawalbound for San Salvador de Jujuyand was last seen in Jump. That day it was captured by the security cameras of the then concessionaire company of the access highway to the capital of Salta, in the toll plaza.
His father, Federico Cashwas personally in charge of collaborating with the authorities but died searching for María in 2014, after suffering a car accident in the province of The Pampa.
The disappearance of the girl became one of the most enigmatic cases in recent years, and the Federal Justice intervened, since there were indications that it could be framed within the crime of human trafficking, as recently happened with Loan Peña. , the Corrientes boy.
Source: Ambito
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