Buenos Aires Herald 
Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, the alleged leader of the gang who killed two young women and a girl in Florencio Varela, was arrested in Peru on Tuesday, Argentina’s Security Ministry announced. He had been on the run since Friday night, when an international arrest warrant was issued for him.
Known as “Pequeño J” (Little J), the 20-year-old was found south of the capital, Lima, hiding in a truck that was on its way to the city of Pucusana. Investigators had been tracking him through antennas and stopped his vehicle as it was on the road. His alleged right-hand man, Matías Ozorio, had been arrested an hour earlier by a joint team of local police, Interpol, and the Argentine Federal Police.
The detainees are now in the process of being extradited to Argentina, where they will be formally charged over the murders of Lara Gutiérrez, Brenda del Castillo, and Morena Verdi. So far, nine people have been arrested in the case, including “Little J” and Ozorio.
According to investigators, Valverde was traveling from Bolivia and planned to meet Ozorio in Peru. Valverde was identified from the outset as the prime suspect in the triple femicide, and stands accused of planning both the victims’ murder and its live streaming on social media.
Ozorio lived in Villa 21-24, a slum in Buenos Aires city, although he also frequented the neighborhoods La Zavaleta and Villa 1-11-14. At the time of his arrest, he claimed he had been in Peru for a year, lured by drug traffickers. He was identified as Valverde’s henchman and had an Interpol red notice against him.
Before Ozorio’s arrest, a godmother to his mother Raquel said in an interview with C5N’s Rafael Palavecino that the young man had lost all of his savings through the infamous $LIBRA crypto currency scam.
“[Ozorio] invested all his money in $LIBRA,” she said. “He went into a lot of debt. When he lost the money, he stopped being the Matías he used to be.”
In February, an X post by Milei supporting a cryptocurrency token called $LIBRA prompted many investors to buy the cryptocurrency. It then collapsed and lost all of its value when its developers withdrew between US$80 million and US$100 million less than an hour after creating it.
The woman explained that Ozorio had a proper job and “a good salary” in the Buenos Aires Italian Hospital, but “he got the idea that he could become a millionaire with crypto.” A Facebook account shows Ozorio in 2024 at a trading school called Revolution, led by crypto influencer Cristian Díaz. Argentina’s National Values Commission filed a criminal complaint against the company for illegal operation last June.
