The man suspected of having ordered the murder of three Argentinian women arrested

Police from Peru arrested a man suspected of having ordered the murder of two 20 -year -old women and a 15 -year -old girl in Argentina.

The three were attracted to a house near the Argentine capital on September 19.

Their mutilated bodies were found several days later and the police revealed that their killers had broadcast their torture and their murder on Instagram live.

The brutality of the crime sent shock waves in the region, thousands of people participating in anti-femicide demonstrations in Buenos Aires on Sunday.

The Minister of Security of the province of Buenos Aires, Javier Alonso, said that cousins ​​Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo, both aged 20, and Lara Morena Gutiéz, 15, had been attracted to an international drug gang at home with a promise to be paid to attend a party.

Video surveillance images of them entering a van with false license plates allowed the police to follow them at home where they were murdered.

Their bodies were found buried in the garden.

The Minister of Security said that their murder had been broadcast to a closed group of 45 people. He added that during live broadcast, a voice could be heard saying “This is what happens to those who steal me from drugs”.

Argentine police arrested seven suspects in the days that followed the crime – including the man suspected of having dug the hole in which the women were buried and a man and his niece, who, according to the police, led the car to which the victims were taken home.

But the man they suspected of having given the order of the killings, Tony Janzen Valverde, 20, also known as “Little J”, had escaped them.

He was arrested by police on a highway at 70 km (43 miles) south of the Peruvian capital, Lima, hidden in a van carrying fish.

In a separate operation, the Peruvian police also owned a 28 -year -old Argentine man, Matías Ozorio, who, according to them, is Mr. Valverde’s right man.

Mr. Ozorio will soon be handed over to the Argentine police, while Mr. Valverde, who is Peruvian citizen, will remain in prison in Peru for the moment while waiting for an extradition by Argentina.

Peruvian police said they had intercepted communications between Mr. Valverde and Mr. Ozorio, which allowed them to find their movements.

Ozorio told the police that he had been “deceived” by a drug gang that he owed money to enter Peru.

The Minister of Security in Argentina congratulated Peruvian police for his work in the detention of the two suspects.