Between closed neighborhoods and luxury buildings: the nomadic life of the leader of the drug gang

In two and a half years, Leandro Emmanuel Reyes visited five properties, including two in Nordelta; He told his girlfriend that he was part of the "league" and that he had bought homes and auction cars.

They met in a bowling alley and, five months later, they went to live in an apartment in Olivos. This was the first of many changes in nearly three years. The young couple lived in the complex Antares Senior Living and in Puerto Escondido, in

Nordelta

; in the village of Maschwitz; in a building tower in the neighborhood of Villa Ortúzar in Buenos Aires and in a house they would have built in El Remanso, Exaltación de la Cruz.

They looked like nomads. But no: so many changes of residence and temporary tenancies ended abruptly at the beginning of last month, when the police of Buenos Aires dismantled an organization of

vip narcos

who lived in all the luxury.

Melina F. was arrested on 4 April after a series of raids, including a strike in Nordelta. His boyfriend Leandro Emmanuel Reyes, 27, was a fugitive for six days. Appointed head of the organization, he was arrested at Villa Tesei, Hurlingham.

He is still in detention, tried with preventive detention in Devoto Prison. Melina, 23, was jailed for 20 days in Ezeiza until San Martín Federal Judge Alicia Vence, subrogated to Tres de Febrero, dictated her lack of merit and ordered her to be released immediately while Investigation is continuing.

Reyes and 17 other suspects were tried in custody by Judge Vence after being examined.
At first glance co-perpetrators of the crime of drug trafficking, their terms of trade and possession for these purposes.

It has provisionally proven that "all the people involved have integrated different links in the drug trafficking chain being investigated, acting in an orderly manner towards a common goal and exercising each of the more or less determined roles, without which there is no direct contact. among them, nothing changes the composition of the organization, whose seniority dates back at least two and a half years, "said the judge.

raiding

Operation Los Reyes del Norte, the result of two and a half years of research, was presented last month by Provincial Minister of Security Cristian Ritondo; the chief of police of Buenos Aires, the general commissioner Fabian Perroni, and the federal prosecutor of Tres de Febrero, Paul Starc.

Among the accused are Paula Avanzi and Martín Asci, aged 36 and 28 respectively. Until his arrest, this couple rented a house in the district of Las Caletas in Nordelta. Before they lived in the closed neighborhood Eucalis, La Horqueta, San Isidro.

When the police raided the property rented by Avanzi and Asci, they found in a cloakroom of one of the rooms a black bag containing 670 ecstasy pills, 83 LSD units, one and a half kilos of cocaine and 886 grams of granulated methamphetamine.

In the boat cabin Alama, moored in a building dock, a bag containing 74 grams of cocaine was discovered.

During her investigation, Melina F. claimed that Reyes was participating in a judicial auction and had "integrated a league [sic]he bought real estate and vehicles that he subsequently resold. "He did not know if he was selling narcotics." I have never heard anything strange about drugs and I have not seen him do the same thing, "he said.

According to the minutes, the truth is that Reyes had a significant increase in his badets that was not reflected only in the places where he lived.

"The increase in wealth of many of the defendants emerged during the investigation, highlighting the case of Reyes, to whom she is linked, at least, with different properties located in different closed neighborhoods, with a house at Exaltation of the Cross and seven private cars, some of which were upmarket, thus baderting that its economic power was the product of the profits of the network of drug traffickers that it directed and integrated with its other causes ", said Judge Vence.

During the investigation, Reyes was discovered driving several vehicles, including a Land Rover model Range Rover Evoque SI4 2.0, a Volkswagen Fox, a Ford Focus, a Volkswagen Up, a Peugeot 208 and a Volkswagen Sirocco. the court file.

The researchers noted that gangs selling drugs in San Martin and San Isidro, among other things in the conurbano, used parking garages in buildings to store the drugs they later distributed.

"Reyes has hidden him in different vehicles that he kept in different garages," said one of the suspects prosecuted by Judge Vence in his opening statement. He cited, for example, a complex of buildings in the city of Beccar.

"We must not forget that in the development of research, more than a hundred phone lines related to the accused were listened to, the first of which was ordered on March 22, 2017, pointing out that since when, on the basis of the result of these measures and the investigation work, possible acts of continuous trade were envisaged at the time of the members of the network of drug traffickers examined here, which finally corroborated the kidnappings obtained during of the practice of the searches, "explained Judge Vence. your resolution