They arrested in Paraguay the chief of the gang who sold marijuana to Itatí

Saucedo, 39 years old I was on the run since 2017when the case known as "Operation Sapucay" was discovered, in which they were involved until the mayor of ItatíRoger Terán and his vice Fabio Aquino.

Saucedo was the leader of the group "Los Gordos". Before fleeing to Paraguay, he lived in Itatí with a luxurious standard of living that included a fleet of 25 high-value vehicles ranging from upscale cars to an outboard.

If it was "virgin" notes, Saucedo earned only 7,000 pesos in the municipality. But "Lucho Saucedo is a boss, owner of everything Itatí, drives vans and trucks to transport the drugs," warned a repentant who had said in the case.

he narco chief was located and arrested in Pilar, 360 km from Asunción, by members of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat of Paraguay (SENAD), the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) and the Gendarmerie of Argentina.

At the time of Saucedo's arrest, a reward of $ 1,500,000 was still in effect for those who provided data that would have the effect of capturing them. Next to him was Antonio Ramón Navarro, aka "Moncho", Another fugitive who had this investigation and who was part of his group.

"Los Gordos" shared their territory in Itatí with two other groups: the one headed by Carlos "Cachito" Bareiro, who was driving him from a Chaco prison and the other by Federico "Morenita" Marín, arrested in October 2018.

Barreiro and Marín, along with Terán and Aquino, began trial on 28 August. In the case there is 36 accused, most members of the security forces.

The case began to be the subject of an investigation in 2014 by former Federal Judge Sergio Torres, who wanted to find out how the drug gangs in the city of Buenos Aires were being supplied .

Indices led to the determination that marijuana had arrived in the form of "loaves" or "bricks" that had been rafted from Paraguay to Itatí, a town of 8,000 inhabitants on the banks of the Paraná River. .

From there, it was distributed to the city of Buenos Aires, to the territory of Buenos Aires, to Santa Fe (where he supplied the group of "Los Monos"), to Córdoba, to Tucumán, to Chaco, to Santiago del Estero and in Mendoza.