Within the framework of the investigation by the crime of Mauro Fabián Molinathe Buenos Aires police officer shot dead by criminals this Tuesday in the town of Isidro Casanova, the prosecutor Carlos Adrian Arribas made significant progress in finding the suspects.
Sources in the case confirmed this Wednesday to Infobae that, by order of the head of the Homicide Prosecutor’s Office of La Matanza, and after the first investigative tasks, police personnel raided a home last night in the Matanzas town of Evita City. Once there, the agents They found the gray Volkswagen Amarok in which the criminals were movingwhich had active kidnapping request since December 27, 2024, in a case for motor vehicle theft that is being processed at the Escobar UFI.
In addition, prosecutor Arribas ordered the arrest of the 61-year-old owner of the house, who is precisely AAA’s mother (40), one of the main suspects of murdering Molina.
The agents also seized 340 thousand pesos in cash, quick-drying sprays and an odor eliminator, all added to a photograph, cell phone and passport of the fugitive.
According to sources in the case, the identified assailant He has an electronic anklet and was under house arrest by order of UFI No. 4 of Morón, in a case for homicide committed with a firearm, aggravated because the victim was a member of a police force, in the degree of attempted real competition with illegitimate carrying of a weapon of war, which occurred on August 23, 2021 in El Palomar.
Molina was murdered minutes before noon this Tuesday, when tried to resist a robbery while working as a custodian in front of a chicken shop located on Route 3, in the town of Isidro Casanova.
The attack occurred around 11.40 at the corner of Route 3 and Marconi, where Molina was performing custody tasks for a company dedicated to the transportation of funds.
As shown in the video images at the top of this note, the victim was surprised by a group of armed criminals who were seeking to collect revenue from the business.
Molina had arrived at the scene aboard a truck and was inside the vehicle when, suddenly, he was intercepted by at least two armed assailants, who They were traveling in a Volkswagen Amarok.
The event was recorded in security videos that show the sequence of the ambush: apparently, the criminals waited for the guard to park on the sidewalk. When an employee of the chicken shop brought the collection to him, the assailants They pounced on Molina, took him out of the cabin and threw him to the floor. At that moment, one of them shot him point blank in the chest.
The images also show the moment in which the criminals search the body of the police officer lying on the ground to remove other belongings before fleeing.
After the attack, the thieves escaped in the same Amarok in which they had arrived and which they parked in front of the police van to block his path.
The officer was rushed to the Paroissien Hospital, where doctors tried to revive him, but he died shortly after admission due to the severity of the wound.
With more than 10 years of service in the forceMolina belonged to the Federal Crime Investigation Directorate of the Superintendency of Complex Crimes and Organized Crime. He was the father of two children, ages 15 and 13..
Given the way they acted, investigators suspect that the assailants They planned the coup and that they had information about the guard’s movements.
