The Peruvian Víctor Sotacuro Lázaro (41) exposed fellow nationals Álex Ydone Castillo and David Morales Huamaní as alleged perpetrators of the murder of three young people on Saturday, September 20, in retaliation for the theft of cocaine and money from a drug gang operating in Buenos Aires.
Sotacuro fled the Argentine capital as soon as the security cameras that recorded that he was driving his vehicle through the area of the triple feminicide were made public, but a few days later he was detained in a hideout in Bolivia.
In recent statements before the Buenos Aires prosecutor’s office in charge of the case, Víctor Sotacuro stated that he is dedicated to the taxi service and that he was hired by his compatriot David Morales Huamaníknown as “El Tarta”, due to his difficulties speaking, and also as “Crazy David”.
Upon arriving at the place where they agreed that Sotacuro would wait to pick him up, David Morales Huamaní appeared in the company of Álex Ydone Castillo. The two were in wet and muddy suits, as if they had participated in a fight at the “Peruvian party” they had attended, according to the version that Sotacuro gave to the prosecution.
Sotacuro reported that he transported both subjects in the early hours of Saturday, September 20, a short distance from the house where the three women were tortured, executed and clandestinely buried.
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bloody hands
The The prosecution believes that David Morales and Álex Ydone Castillo would be the perpetrators of the murderor, after they did an analysis of the background of both people.
The latest information that comes from the DNI of David Morales Huamaní corresponds to the year 2015, and indicates that he was born in Lima on November 3, 1988 and registered the human settlement El Sauce, in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho, as his address.
The migratory movement indicates that he left the country heading to Chile on April 29, 2007 and that he returned from the same country on January 18, 2008. He made a second trip on February 4, 2016 again to Chile, but never returned, at least formally.
The Buenos Aires prosecutor’s office has informed the Argentine press that David Morales would have a history of drug trafficking in both Peru and Argentina.
Álex Ydone Castillo was also born in Lima, on August 17, 1975. He updated his DNI in 2023, just two years ago, indicating his address as Saraza 1546 Parque Chacabuco, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA).
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In the drug trafficking files
At the request of the Callao Mixed Chamber, on October 1, 2021, the then Pedro Castillo authorized requesting Argentina for the extradition of Álex Ydone Castillo to answer for the crime of aggravated illicit drug trafficking (sale of cocaine in a gang).
Álex Ydone Castillo left Peru to avoid facing justice for the accusation of drug trafficking and in 2023 he renewed his DNI with an address in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Since 1997, Ydone has made several trips to Argentina. In 1998 he made seven trips to Bolivia and on those occasions returned to Peru from Argentina. In 2007 and 2008 he made two other trips to the same country through Bolivia. And in 2011, he headed to the same Argentine destination three times. There must have been many more visits because he left for Bolivia but went to Argentina, according to his migratory movements.
Álex Ydone Castillo and David Morales Huamaní are currently fugitives from justice, by order of the Argentine justice system, which considers them suspected of having carried out the homicides. The gang ended the lives of the young women because they tipped off another organization about the existence of a stash of cocaine and money, which was later stolen.
This Wednesday the Buenos Aires police carried out a series of searches and raids to locate and arrest Ydone and Morales.
There are now five Peruvians involved in the brutal murder of the three women: Tony Valverde Victoriano, “Pequeño J”, Miguel Villanueva Silva, Víctor Sotacuro Lázaro and the missing David Morales and Álex Ydone.
