And man was arrested and charged as suspected of having committed the femicide of Agostina Trigo (22), who was found murdered on July 6 in an abandoned shed in the Mendoza town of San Martín. The accused is called Diego Armando Caballero (35) and the comparison of his DNA was positive with the genetic traces found in the victim’s body.
“We have obtained a positive match regarding the perpetrator of Agostina’s murderand everything has culminated happily with the discovery of the material author of the act, Diego Armando Caballero, who is detained at the moment”, affirmed the Attorney General Alejandro Gullé, together with the Minister of Security of Mendoza, Raúl Levrino and the prosecutor Oscar Sívori, who confirmed in a press conference the capture and subsequent imputation of the man.
Caballero was arrested at his home in the last few hours when he was wanted for another act linked to another cause of sexual abuse. During the operation, the investigations found in Caballero’s wallet a piece of paper with Agostina’s cell phone number and underneath it said, “job wanted”, so he was implicated in that fact. In addition, the investigators established that the man was among the contacts of the young woman’s Facebook social network.
After the comparison of DNA with the genetic traces found in the victim’s body, whose result was positive, he was charged with femicide. Gulle added that they still do not know “if there may be any other person” who has been an accomplice and clarified that “the investigation is open and there may not be.”
“We found a series of elements that were probative, Agostina’s name, her phone number, and the screenshot where she applied for a job and offered herself as a babysitter”, Minister Levrino said at the press conference. The official added that “although the murderer is arrested, there are a number of elements that still need to be investigated.”
Since the police personnel found several elements that link him to Agostina’s crime, they indicated that “this criminal, this murderer, is promptly arrested, and then he is transferred to the DNA bank whose results coincide punctually with the genetic fingerprints ”.
The press conference was held in the Police Palace building, in Belgrano and Carmen de Cuyo, with Attorney Gullé at the head, hours following the province’s Ministry of Security offered on Friday a reward of 700,000 pesos for the people who provide information that allows us to find the perpetrator(s) of Agostina’s crime.
Last Saturday July 9 The Police arrested a 34-year-old truck driver from Córdoba who was later released because the DNA tests were negative. The investigators reached him following having intervened the two Facebook accounts of the victim and the two cell phones he had.
The trucker had posted an ad offering a babysitting job for his three-year-old daughter and had interacted with Agostina, but following the young woman’s femicide, he deleted the account. Beyond the negative results, judicial sources reported that he has not yet released them from the investigation.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor Sívori also referred to the incidents that occurred during a demonstration demanding justice for the event, which left the headquarters of the San Martín Public Prosecutor’s Office disabled. In this regard, the judicial official said that there are eight detainees, four women and four men, one of them a minor.
As a result of the fact, the attorney of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza, Alejandro Gullé, ordered the disqualification of the judicial headquarters following the disturbances that caused severe damage to the facilities of the building located on 25 de Mayo and Arjonilla, of that department, currently under repair.
The young woman had been wanted since Sunday, July 3, when she left her house for a job interview and, upon arriving at the stop where she was to meet the person who contacted her, she sent a message to her relatives to let them know that she was already there, following which lost contact.
Agostina’s body was found three days later in an abandoned shed located on Robert and Carril Norte streets, in San Martín. That same day in the followingnoon, family members, friends, NGOs, marched through the center and ended with incidents in front of the building of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of San Martín that led to the arrest of ten people.
