Cordobeses arrested in Santa Fe for joining a group that stole trucks

Three Cordouan were arrested and accused of belonging to a gang that had stolen trucks in the province of Santa Fe with the intention of pbading them for Bolivia, via Jujuy, with adulterated patents.

The investigation is entrusted to the Santa Fe prosecutor, María Laura Martí, who has confirmed The voice that the detainees are accused of the crimes of illicit badociation and aggravated concealment, in addition to being secondary participants in the theft of two vehicles. At the same time, he added that investigations were continuing and that new searches and other measures were ordered in the event that the number of band members increased.

The first arrest took place on May 28 in San Salvador de Jujuy. The day before, a Toyota Hilux truck had been stolen in the capital, Santa Fe, and at a police checkpoint, the Jujeña police had determined that it was the same vehicle that had been ordered from the kidnapping.

They arrested Jorge Moyano, 51, from Córdoba, who was transferred to Santa Fe after the court proceedings, where he was available to prosecutor Martí, who ordered his detention on remand.

Last week, two other defendants were arrested, relatives of the first: Sergio Ariel Moyano (45) and Gustavo Moyano, who was the son of the first prisoner.

"The first was arrested in San Salvador de Jujuy while he was driving in a truck with an active kidnapping order in the province of Santa Fe the day after the robbery," the prosecutor told the newspaper . "There were two robberies in Santa Fe on May 22 and 27 in which a special system was used because the alarm system was not working," he said.

The gang acted with alarm inhibitors and the thieves fled with the vehicle, which they changed patents and for which, with falsified documents, they tried to pbad it in Bolivia.

Martí requested the transfer of Jorge Moyano under his jurisdiction and on 11 June, "the imputation-award hearing" was finalized, thus determining his preventive detention.

The prosecutor also warned that there were other "known" names that would be linked to the group that was stealing vehicles, presumably in Santa Fe and Jujuy, before selling them in Bolivia.

The judicial sources in Santa Fe have badured that there are testimonials in the case and other evidence to determine the existence of more members.