“Pantro”, “Popeye”, “Mustache” and “Mamacha” or “Mano Rápida” are foreigners, they are detained and along with eight other people will be subjected to an oral trial, accused of forming a drug gang that had been operating for 20 years in the 1-11-14 neighborhood of Bajo Flores in Buenos Aires, to which at least a hundred facts of sale of cocaine, marijuana, base paste or paco were verified and that daily collected up to 900 thousand pesos, judicial sources reported today.
For researchers, “Pantro” is Jhonny Ray Arnao Quispe and it has its own name in the underworld environment, especially in the southern part of Buenos Aires, because it inherited the leadership of the narcocriminal organization that for years had Marco Estrada González, alias “Marcos”, as its supreme leader, the Peruvian narco who was convicted by the Federal Justice and is currently a prisoner in Marcos Paz.
The 12 Federal Criminal and Correctional Judge, Ariel Lijo, gave rise to the request made by the federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano and the prosecutor Diego Iglesias, in charge of the Narcocriminality Prosecutor’s Office (Procunar) to take the case to oral trial for Pantro and his eleven accomplices, whom he accuses of having acted “in collusion and full agreement in the illegal conduct investigated “.
The Federal Oral Court 6 was bypassed and will now be in charge of setting the start date for the oral trial.
The investigation
During the raids in which these twelve people had been detained, Two other accomplices were also arrested who in recent days were already convicted in an abbreviated trial involving the city prosecutor Cecilia Amil Martín, from the Special Prosecutor’s Unit for the Investigation of Narcotic-Related Crimes (UFEIDE).
According to Judge Lijo, the organization stored, divided and distributed in at least seven hectares of Villa 1-11-14 different classes of narcotics, such as marijuana, cocaine and paco, “in large quantities or in small portions destined for individual consumption.” .
For researchers, the “Pantro” band was entrenched in the inner streets of the neighborhood: With sheer violence and fire, he controlled the corridors and the territory in “El Sendero”, in the “Peruvian” sector, specifically in the blocks that go from 13 to 24, and in the surroundings of the town, such as in neighboring building complexes, in “El Corralón” and “La Quema”.
According to the investigations, the criminal organization had the motto of “anything goes”. The objective was to use violence “with the evident purpose of preventing the occurrence of conflictive situations that somehow endanger the normal development of the aforementioned maneuvers,” said the judge in the elevation to trial.
“Pantro”, a Peruvian national, was accused of being the “organizer of a chain for the illicit trafficking of narcotic substances in which more than three people intervened and a co-perpetrator of the crime of stockpiling firearms, their parts and ammunition”, and At the time of being processed, an embargo of 5 million pesos was blocked.
Meanwhile, the other eleven defendants will go to trial accused of being “co-perpetrators of the crime of drug trafficking in the form of possession for marketing purposes aggravated by the intervention of three or more people in an organized manner to commit it, and co-perpetrators of the crime of stockpiling. of firearms, their parts and ammunition, both in real competition with each other “.
It is about Dante Eduardo Vacarreza Alpiri, alias “Popeye”; Rafael Enrique Villacorta Díaz, alias “Bigote”; Luis Armando Injante Pasantes, alias “Mamacha or Mamachita”; Carlos Alberto Velázques Galiano, alias “Pilón”; Oscar Domingo Cervantes Arana, alias “Murci”, Alicia Raquel Bordón Sarabia; Marcos Alberto Bogado Chaparro, alias “Fatal and / or Dengue”; Alejandro Noguera Domínguez, alias “Pecas and / or Pequitas”, Iván Carlos Aurich Rodíguez, alias “Mano Rápida”; Juan Waldir Torres Sifuentes, alias “Langosta”; and Gustavo Jesús Huertas Santos, alias “Pepe”.
What was the structure of the narco-gang like
The gang of “Pantro”, who is adjudged to be the organizer of the criminal businesses with which he collected up to 900 thousand pesos a day with the drug trade in Villa 1-11-14 of Bajo Flores, the extortion of merchants and the stockpiling of firearms, consisted of dozens of people who fulfilled the roles of “supervisors”, “collectors” or “sellers”.
According to the request for an oral trial made by prosecutors Eduardo Taiano and Diego Iglesias, although the investigation into the gang began at the end of 1999 with the leadership of Marco Estrada González, alias “Marcos”, in the stage that included the February 9 to September 23, 2021, the organization was under the command of Jhony Ray “Pantro” Arnao Quispe.
According to the letter, along with “Pantro” and at the same leadership level, were Ulises “Pitufo” Romero Godoy and María Antonia Godoy Merino.
“They all intervened as band organizers in which they gave directives to the rest of the members of the group, supervised its completion and received the money product of drug sales, “prosecutors said in the letter to which Télam had access.
For researchers, in a second line, as those in charge and responsible for supervising the activities of drug marketing, subdivision, money collection and securityThey are: Haminton “Charapa” Flores, Wilmer “Mascarita” De la Cruz Aredo, Dante Eduardo “Popeye” Vacarreza Alpiri, Rafael Enrique “Mustache” Villa Corta Díaz, Víctor Hugo “Foco” Pérez Rayme, Israel “Raco” Salazar Gutiérrez and Héctor Andrés Jauregui, nicknamed “Cuervín”, “Lanchón” and “Gelber”.
According to the prosecution, in a third line, the organization would also be made up of the persons identified so far as: Jorge Enrique “Monillo” Andia Arnao, Luis Armando “Mamacha” or “Mamachita” Injante Pesdamientos, Carlos Alberto “Pilón” Galiano Velázquez, Oscar Domingo “Murci” Cervantes Arana, Diego Ramón “Bebecho” Velázquez, Alicia Raquel Bordón Sarabia, Carlos Martín “Caballito” Alvarado Andia, Luis Raúl “Manyute” Paucar Roca, Ronald Jilmar “Jota” Huertas Martel, Marco Alberto “Fatal” and / or “Dengue” Bogado Chaparro, Alejandro “Pecas” and / or “Pequitas “Noguera Domínguez, Iván Carlos” Quick Hand “Aurich Rodríguez, Juan” Langosta “Torres Sifuentes and César Alberto” Pepe “Salazar Cosme.
For prosecutors, the defendants fulfilled different roles –markers, vests, vendors– in the execution of the activities of the narcocriminal organization.
On each one of them -the majority of Peruvian nationality- fell an embargo of 3.5 million pesos on their assets.
According to the elevation to trial and the request of the prosecutors, it was confirmed that the gang committed at least 100 illegal acts and it was determined that “the criminal group has been forged twenty years ago, with the participation of an undetermined number of people -that today would exceed 100- “, whose activities varied between” markers “,” vendors “,” organizers “and” soldiers “, among others.
At the time of being investigated, “Pantro” denied being part of the drug gang, said that “he never” had a cause in his life, that he is a “monotributista”, that he has been working “for more than two years in the blank” and that ” Little “that he earns” is enough “to live” with his wife and two daughters.
The investigation into a drug organization in that neighborhood began on June 29, 1999, when three homicides were registered in the property known as “Cancha de los Peruanos”, which marked “the beginning of power of the brothers Fernando (alias ‘Pity’) and ‘Marcos’ Estrada González inside the settlement.”
However, after the sentence to 24 years in prison of the drug lord “Marcos” in 2020, the suspicion of the prosecutors Taiano and Iglesias and the Buenos Aires Specialized Prosecutor in Narcotic-Related Crimes was that “Pantro” (his nickname, they say, comes from the series of cartoons Thundercats, where there is a character named Panthro, who was a pilot, chief mechanic and feared bats) was in command of the criminal structure.
For the investigators, Arnao Quispe was brought especially from Peru “to put order” inside the town after the succession of crimes, until he finally fell after a series of simultaneous raids in which drugs of all kinds were seized, notes, Cell phones, scales and dozens of pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles and even grenades, with which they sowed terror in the corridors of the town.
Two men who had been arrested together with “Pantro” are sentenced
Two men who had been detained together with Jhony Ray Arnao Quispe, better known as “Pantro”, in the village 1-11-14 last September, they were sentenced in an abbreviated trial to 4 years and 4 years and 8 months in prison respectively for the sale of drugs in that Buenos Aires settlement.
Judicial sources assured Télam that the sentence was handed down by the Buenos Aires Criminal, Misconduct and Misdemeanor Judge Rodolfo Ariza Clerici, in the framework of an abbreviated trial in which the penalties were agreed between the defense attorneys and the prosecutor Cecilia Amil Martín, of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Unit in the investigation of crimes related to narcotics (UFEIDE).
The condemned were Jesús Alberto Rojas Castillo, alias “Cucula”, who received the sentence of 4 years and 8 months in prison; while Lidio Sebastián Sánchez Aquino, alias “Sebas”, must effectively serve 4 years in jail.
Sources in the investigation said that the court charged them with the crime of “selling narcotics.”
In the same ruling, the judge issued the arrest warrant for another five people and the preventive detention of a sixth, identified by the investigators as Ricardo Damián Galeano Velázquez, alias “Pilon 2”.
Investigators suspect that all these people had ties to “Pantro” in the sale of drugs in the 1-11-14 town of Bajo Flores in Buenos Aires, which was partially disrupted last September with the arrest of 12 of its members, who will go to oral trial soon.
