The former leader of the Board of Trustees barrabrava, Gustavo Andres “Petaco” Barrientoswas shot to death during a temporary outing near the Entre Ríos town of Colonia Ensayo, when he was attacked by a group of criminals who broke into the house where he was with his partner, judicial sources reported today.
The event occurred yesterday, around 4:00 p.m., in a farmhouse in the “Los Cardales” lot located on kilometer 14 of National Route (RN) 11, a few blocks from the entrance of the aforementioned town on the Argentine coast.
There was the victim, identified as Petaco Barrientos, who had temporary releases from the Paraná Penal Unit because in August he would serve his sentence for homicide, together with his wife Verónica Martínez, 43 years old.
According to the Entre Ríos portal NowBarrientos, 45, was sentenced in 2015, in an abbreviated trial, for being accused of the crime that cost the life of Matias Gimenez y Maximilian Godoywhich occurred on November 9, 2012 in the Paraná XX neighborhood. These murders would have been linked to the sale of drugs.
The aforementioned media outlet affirms that Barrientos was “one of the great drug lords of the province” and that the “main hypothesis would be a reckoning”. This incident alerted the local police.
In December of last year, Barriento had obtained authorization from the Paraná Sentence Execution Court, headed by Judge Cecilia Bértora, to comply with a series of reduced family outings. In one of those outings, this Saturday, he was executed.
The spokesmen indicated that, after the crime, the woman decompensated and had to be assisted, although she testified before the prosecutor and explained that those responsible for the crime were seven people who were dressed in black and with their faces covered.
The woman said that the criminals broke down the door and the gate, entered shouting “police” and asked for Petaco to appear, after which the victim came out to meet him and received five bullet wounds, four in the chest and one in the head.
The police sources indicated that the house has security cameras, through which they were able to observe that the criminals arrived in a tinted black Toyota SW4 truck, which was found last night in Puerto Alvear, about 17 kilometers from the place of the crime and on the banks of the Paraná river.
Inside the van, the police found: a camouflaged diver, three carbine-type shoulder firearms, 19 762 caliber cartridges, a black backpack, four legguards, 28 9-millimeter caliber cartridges, 26 5.56-caliber cartridges with a charger, 30 7.62×39 caliber cartridges with their charger, a black bag, a white ballistic vest, a mass with a wooden handle and a blue T-shirt.
The prosecutor Gilberto Robledo, in charge of Diamante’s Functional Instruction Unit (UFI), intervenes in the case, who ordered the rigorous procedures to clarify the crime.
In sports, the Paraná Board of Trustees won the Argentine Cup at the end of 2022 and started the current edition of that contest with a win after eliminating Gimnasia and Tiro de Salta. They qualified for the next edition of the Copa Libertadores. However, they were relegated to the First National and march in 15th place among 19 teams with two defeats and one draw.
With information from Telam
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