The justice of La Matanza prosecuted three of the accused and pointed out the alleged key role of “El Tío” for the triple crime in Florencio Varela, occurred on September 19, 2025. Morena Verdi (20), Brenda Loreley Del Castillo (20) and Lara Morena Gutierrez (15) left their house in Evita City to meet a customer near a gas station and they never returned.
Security cameras showed that the victims went up to a Chevrolet Tracker blancawhich was later proven to have been stolen from a car dealership. The next day, the vehicle was found on fire. Florencio Varela.
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As the investigation progressed, the Police analyzed communications, geolocations and security cameras. Thus, they established that the young women were illegally deprived of their liberty and later found lifeless, buried in a house Villa Vatteone.
Justice confirmed the key role of El Tío in the triple crime of Florencio Varela. (Photo: TN).
The file, in charge of the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 2 of Morónrevealed that the crimes were committed with treachery, cruelty and premeditationand in all cases several people participated.
Who are the accused and how the gang operated
The investigation suspects that Bernabé Jesús Mallón (42) is one of the main people responsible, according to what he learned TN. The man, with a criminal record, would have had a key role within the organization, where he was known as El Tío. It is suspected that he covered up activities of drug sales under the façade of a bazaar shop.
Together with him, they were processed Debora Monica Mujica y Joseph Cubas Zavaleta. According to the case, both would have made essential contributions to carry out and cover up the criminal plan. Mujica, for example, would have ordered delete the content of your partner’s cell phone to eliminate evidence, while Zavaleta would have tried to get rid of documents and records that compromised him.
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Furthermore, the research indicates that Alex Ydone y Florencia Milagros Ibarra They held a key meeting with Mallón in a restaurant in Avellaneda before the events, which reinforces the hypothesis of an organization with well-defined roles.
The past December 19the police arrested Mallon in a house in Berazategui, when he tried to escape. In the operation they kidnapped six cell phones and a Chevrolet Cruze blancocar that Mallón used to travel to the meeting prior to the crime.
The cell phones that were seized in the operation. (Photo: TN).
Days later, the police raided a car dealership in The Silver and recovered the Cruze itself, a key piece to reconstruct the band’s movements.
Federal judge Jorge Ernesto Rodríguez prosecuted Mujica, Zavaleta and Mallón by illegal deprivation of liberty coercive aggravated by the plurality of participants and by the fact that one of the victims is a minor, and by aggravated homicide for premeditated competition, treachery, cruelty and criminis causae, in real competition.
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According to the resolution, the three would have acted with knowledge of the common plan, from the planning and logistics until the subjugation and murder of victims.
