Buenos Aires, November 9, 2025 – Total News Agency-TNA – Fifty days after the triple murder that shook Florencio Varela, the investigation continues with eleven detainees, three fugitives, and a focus on a transnational drug trafficking organization as the backdrop.
In parallel, the Buenos Aires Provincial Ministry of Security confirmed that the crimes responded to a 'disciplinary message' logic within a gang with ramifications in the AMBA (Greater Buenos Aires) and Peru. With the case heading to federal jurisdiction, investigators are focusing on consolidating the chain of responsibility: from those who recruited and subdued the victims to the alleged masterminds who ordered the crimes and their staging.
The brutality of the case and the suspicion of a 'mafioso message' over a drug dispute pushed the case into federal court. The judicial process included raids and arrests in the Buenos Aires suburbs and key detentions in Peru. The next steps—international requests, device analysis, new identification lineups, and jurisdictional definitions—will be crucial to building the case's structure and taking it to trial with robust evidence, commensurate with the unprecedented violence that shocked Florencio Varela.
A 'digger' who allegedly dug and filled the well, and alleged accomplices who tried to clean up traces, have also been charged.
As the weeks went by, the prosecutor in La Matanza, Adrián Arribas, reclassified the facts as illegal deprivation of liberty followed by aggravated homicide—with aggravating factors of gender-based violence for the male defendants—and requested preventive prison sentences, while also arguing that ordinary jurisdiction was incompetent due to the link to drug trafficking.
Versions of stolen drug shipments or money—with varying figures—circulate in the file as a trigger for the massacre, an aspect the case has not confirmed in volume but maintains as a probable motive for a mafia hit.
While the investigation draws on expert reports, testimonies, and international cooperation, the public demand for justice remains.
The case, which began as a missing persons report when the young women did not return home the night of September 20, quickly turned into a scene of horror upon finding the three bodies and confirming torture prior to the homicides.
The Morón Federal Court intervened to resolve the definitive jurisdiction of the case, aligning with the hypothesis of a drug-related reprisal with connections that exceed provincial jurisdiction.
The plot still has open angles: three suspects remain fugitives with an international arrest warrant, and an 'older man' seen on the night of the abductions is being sought.
The families of Lara, Morena, and Brenda are marching to demand speed and justice, and feminist and community organizations are denouncing the vulnerability of young people recruited under false pretenses under the shadow of drug trafficking.
The victims, Lara Gutiérrez (15) and cousins Morena Verdi (20) and Brenda del Castillo (20), were lured with the promise of $300 to attend a party. According to the investigation, they were taken to a house on Chacra 702, in Villa Vatteone, where they were held captive before being killed and buried in a well in the yard.
Among those implicated are Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano (20), alias 'Pequeño J', detained near Lima after his phone's activity located him; and Matías Agustín Ozorio (28), identified as his right-hand man, expelled from the neighboring country and transferred to Argentina under a major security operation.
Among the first detainees are the owners of the raided house, accused by the prosecution of providing logistical support for the captivity and concealment of the bodies.
Testimonies, cross-referenced communications, and 'confidential contributions' have allowed profiling the roles of different participants and reconstructing vehicle and phone movements.
