Uriel Luciano Cantero , son of the assassinated leader of The monkeys Claudio "Pájaro" Cantero and Lorena Verdún, was arrested this Tuesday in Rosario, in a series of raids for shootings, extortion and stockpiling of weapons and ammunition . At the address in the Las Flores neighborhood where the suspect was arrested , an arsenal was found, a large amount of ammunition of different calibers and more than three million pesos.
Luciano is one of the three children of "Pájaro" Cantero , who was murdered at the end of May 2013 at the door of a bowling alley in Villa Gobernador Gálvez. He is 18 years old and on January 23 he will turn 19. He is the brother of M., 13, and Daiana, who died in a road accident while traveling to visit his uncle, Ariel Máximo "Guille" Cantero in jail Rawson Federal.
“Lucho”, as he is known in the wiretaps that the son of the mythical “Pájaro” has, was located in Caña de Ámbar 1,787, in the area where the Los Monos drug gang historically operated . On the door was a wooden plaque with the address and the inscription "Cantero" below the numbers.
The investigators reached the son of “Pájaro” Cantero and nephew of “Guille” – a bloodthirsty drug boss sentenced to almost 100 years in prison – for a case that began in the middle of last year in the Organized Crime Agency of the Public Ministry of the Accusation of stockpiling weapons, shootings and extortion.
In that case, in which the prosecutors Matías Edery and David Carizza intervene, an alleged illicit association was detected that would be led by Uriel Luciano Cantero. Investigators were able to establish that the 18-year-old has its own organization of "shoots" , which apparently has no connection with that of his uncle "Guille". This criminal structure was suspected of a shootout – where about 60 shots were fired – against a Police van , an attack that took place on December 25.
Who is Luciano Cantero?
The first time his name appeared in the Rosario media last year, it was not for a violent crime. It was on January 23 of last year, when his family celebrated his coming of age. His 18th birthday was celebrated in a house located in the neighboring city of Roldán – usually a property area with land – which included nothing more and nothing less than a show by the cumbia singer Sergio Torres .
The neighbors of the house where Cantero's birthday was held denounced the event as a clandestine party for going against the sanitary provisions of the moment, almost a year after the coronavirus pandemic in the country. Days after the case was reported in the media, Lorena Verdún, Luciano's mother, published a letter on Facebook in which she assured that it was not an illegal event because it ended after 6 o'clock – the time from which it could circulate. And she added that Sergio Torres gave the recital because he knows Luciano "as a baby" for being a friend of "Pájaro" Cantero .
At that time, the prosecution evaluated the formation of a criminal case for the clandestine party. However, "Lucho" Cantero was strongly on the radar of prosecutors from a photo . It was the one published on his Instagram account on January 26 of last year by Agustín Carlos Roberto García, a trap musician known as "Zaramay" . In that image, the artist carries a long gun and is surrounded by armed youths with their faces covered.
In the publication in question that the ragpicker Zaramay uploaded, "Lucho" Cantero is next to him, also armed. Such was the commotion caused by that publication that the prosecutor's office filed a criminal case for public intimidation and arrested several of the people who were identified and charged. In the case of "Lucho" Cantero, he agreed to an abbreviated trial for a sentence of 2 years in prison with conditional execution . However, he never appeared at the hearing for the resolution to be approved by a judge.
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The absence of Luciano Cantero had an explanation, according to the investigators: another prosecutor, in this case the head of the Intentional Homicide unit Adrián Spelta, had just issued him an arrest warrant as the alleged instigator of a crime that occurred in June last year in Balcarce and Anchorena, whose victim was Damián Gastón Gómez: he was riddled with bullets while he was traveling in his car.
"Lucho" was once again under suspicion of a criminal investigation on December 25, when a group of people - who could be members of his alleged gang - opened fire on a Santa Fe Police patrol car that was searching in the neighborhoods of Las Flores and La Granada to an inmate who had escaped a few hours ago from the facilities of the Antinarcotics Division of the Criminal Investigation Agency, in San Luis at 3,200, in the Echesortu neighborhood of the Rosario macrocenter.
From that fact, two of the investigations against him were tacitly connected : the photo of Zaramay where heavy-caliber weapons were exhibited and another for the possible use of these weapons in the shooting of police personnel on December 25, a file that is under the legal classification of attempted murder .
In the house where “Lucho” was detained, in Caña de Ámbar at 1,700, 24 handguns and one long gun were seized; and ammunition . Some of the guns found were the same as those seen in the photo published by the rag dealer, prosecutor Edery said today at a press conference.
“ We had Lucho as the one who handled this large number of weapons and distributed them to a group of people for different events. ”, The prosecutor emphasized while explaining that Luciano's mother, Lorena Verdún, was detained because a firearm was found at her home in Arrieta at 1800.
In the 21 raids that were carried out, three million pesos, 300 dollars, 50 euros, eight motorcycles, five cars and computer equipment were also seized . It is presumed that the weapons and computer elements could provide clues to other investigations of shootings and extortion.
According to prosecutor Edery, Luciano tried to discard some of the weapons at the time of the raid along with a teenager who was in his house. “I had them in two bags. They tried to escape, but the police managed to intercept them a few meters away. , He said.
Finally, Edery explained that many raids were carried out to find "Lucho" Cantero because knowing that he was wanted by the Police, he was spending the night in different directions. One of the raided apartments is in Corrientes at 1,600, in the center of Rosario, where he apparently slept from time to time.
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