The inmate – allegedly a member of the First Capital Command – escaped from the Coronel Oviedo prison with 8 other inmates on December 20, 2022.
Is about Leonardo Mareco, 27 years oldwho managed to be recaptured on the morning of this Monday on the public highway located on Calle 1° de Marzo c/ San Ramón, in the neighborhood María Auxiliadora of the district of Juan Manuel Frutos.
“Today we recaptured him and returned him to his place of confinement, since December we have been monitoring him. the inmate was sentenced to 7 years for aggravated robbery. I coordinated with the director and for now He is in the Oviedo penitentiary”expressed the commissioner Eladio Martínez, head of Investigations of Caaguazú, in dialogue with 1020 AM.
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They recapture a member of the PCC who had escaped from the Coronel Oviedo prison
Leonardo Mareco, 27, had escaped on December 20, 2022 and was already sent to the aforementioned penitentiary.
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In this regard, it indicated that, as it understands, Leonardo Mareco would be transferred to another prison.
The man was part of the group 9 inmates who escaped on December 20, 2022 from the Coronel Oviedo prison. In this way, only Odilio Dominguez Marquez He is currently still a fugitive from justice.
It is worth mentioning that the prison agents reported that in the early that Tuesday, nine prisoners escaped from the prison, alleged members of the PCC. Of the total, one was discovered and recaptured when he tried to leave the prison.
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According to the data, the inmates managed to reach the street through a tunnel that was built in the pavilion of the criminal group, where improvements to the structure were supposedly made, but strikingly the said constructions They were not reported to the Ministry of Justice.
Once through the conduit, the inmates went outside, cut through the perimeter fabric, and They fled to a wooded area.
After the fact, the portfolio of Justice ordered the intervention of the penitentiary. Subsequently removed from office the director of the penitentiary, Raúl Vera.
