Three members of the Buenos Aires Police were arrested in the framework of the case that investigates the crime of Nestor Ramon “Lito” Costillathe young delivery man who he lost control of his motorcycle in an episode in which the main hypothesis indicates that one of the suspects kicked him in the middle of a chase. The event occurred on the night of October 7, 2020when the young man took a friend home, at diagonal 74 and 119, where he stayed for a few minutes while making a video call with his sister.
as far as he could tell 0221.com.ar, the arrests of Damian Antonio Aquino, Mauricio Rodriguez Medina and Sergio Ceferino Martinez were in charge of the Court of Guarantees No. 5, after the request made by the prosecutor Juan Cruz Condomi Alcortawho carries out the investigation of the case.
“On the last business day of December, the Appeals Chamber rejected the appeal that had denied the release from prison. The arrest was already ordered and was subject to this, that is, this was turned around and now the arrest has been made effective,” explained the lawyer for the victim’s family, Fernando García López.
Meanwhile, Lito’s sister told this portal that “the arrest request was made on Thursday, since that day they were looking for them, they searched their houses and did not find them.” And she recounted that “I met with the prosecutor, he had told me that they had fled but when he was about to leave they called him to inform him that the defendants turned themselves in at the Guarantee Court.”
According to the investigation, the police officers involved were traveling on official motorcycles without beacons or sirens on and they followed Costilla for several blocks, for no reason. That’s how they caught up with him and locked him in at 524 between 120 and 121. At that moment, they kicked the dealer’s Honda Wave, who lost control of the roll and ended up hitting a wooden post before falling onto the tape. asphalt. Sources close to the case revealed that he died on the spot.
At that time, in the police report it was reported that a passerby “observed lying on the public road” to the young man, for which he notified the Police. Some photos of the place, with the motorcycle on the sidewalk and the victim’s body several meters away, completed the information. It was also indicated that the blow against the asphalt was decisive in the death and that he would have lost stability due to driving at high speed. The fact was framed in the worrisome rates of mortality from traffic accidents.
However, that first version was reversed a few weeks later due to the results of an investigation carried out by the young man’s family. With testimonies from witnesses, images from security cameras in the area and some expertise, It proved that the young man was traveling at low speed and that, in the minutes before his fatal fall, he had been followed by three policemen who were riding on two other motorcycles. A year and a half later, the case was settled with a strong demand for justice and the provincial Ministry of Security decided that the three police officers involved -who had initially been preventively suspended- They were definitely expelled.
