The San Antonio Oral Criminal Court (TOP) decreed preventive detention against Jeremy Rodríguez Carvallo, the main suspect in the death of Carabineros Second Sergeant Carlos Retamal in the framework of an inspection in a clandestine race.
In this way, the magistrate agreed to the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, the plaintiff lawyers of the Ministry of the Interior and the relatives of the police officer.
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In the instance, it was emphasized that the action is serious due to the throwing of an iron at a person, which has as an aggravating circumstance if it is carried out against a policeman on active duty. This also increases the sentence of presidio mayor in its maximum degree up to life imprisonment.
The magistrate pointed out that there was fraud on the part of Rodríguez Carvallo when he threw the blunt object from a moving vehicle at a speed of over 80 kilometers per hour in the aforementioned commune, where the second sergeant was on his way to supervise a clandestine race.
The police officer was hit on the right side of his face, leaving a part embedded in his cheekbone, which caused serious injuries that led to his death on Wednesday, October 12.
On the other hand, the Oral Criminal Court decreed an investigation period of 120 days due to the nature of the facts and the crimes for which Jeremy Rodríguez Carvallo was formalized.
