The Federal Court in Criminal and Correctional Matters of the Morón Judicial Department has accepted the case investigating the crimes of Morena Verdi (20), Brenda Loreley Del Castillo (20), and Lara Gutiérrez (15) in the Buenos Aires district of Florencio Varela. Federal prosecutor Adrián Arribas confirmed to the Argentine News Agency that the case was finally transferred from ordinary jurisdiction to federal. Miguel Ángel Villanueva Silva (25), Iara Daniela Ibarra (19), Maximiliano Andrés Parra (18), Celeste Magalí González Guerrero (28), Milagros Florencia Ibáñez (20), Matías Agustín Ozorio (28), Ariel Giménez (29), and Lázaro Víctor Sotacuro are detained with preventive imprisonment for the murders, while Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, better known as "Pequeño J", remains imprisoned in Peru. Joseph Freyser Cubas Zavaleta, alias "Señor Jota", is charged with "illegal deprivation of liberty aggravated by the plurality of participants and by the fact that one of the victims was a minor, in conjunction with aggravated homicide for being premeditated against two or more people, for being committed with treachery and cruelty, and for being violence by a man against a woman, and criminal cause." In addition, Mónica Mujica, Sotacuro's wife, is also under arrest, while the search for Alex Ydone Castillo, David Gustavo Huamani (alias "El Loco" David), and Manuel Valverde Rodríguez continues (all have red notices from Interpol).
