About Gustavo Damián Potenza there was an arrest warrant
One of the three fugitives who had a national and international arrest warrant for the crime of Gabriel Izzo, the merchant murdered in the Buenos Aires town of San Antonio de Padua on June 9, was arrested when he was hiding in his girlfriend’s house. in Pontevedra, Merlo party, reported judicial sources.
Is about Gustavo Damian Potenzawho was captured in one of the raids carried out in a house located at the intersection of José Enrique Rodo and Gibraltar, about five blocks from the 5th Merlo Police Station, in the town of Pontevedra, and joins a first detainee who already had the case, Walter Rodriguez Sierraknown as “The Uruguayan”.
Investigators had issued a national and international arrest warrant for Potenza this week.
Photo: Camila Godoy.
The procedure was carried out jointly by police personnel from the province of Buenos Aires and the Federal Police, and the detainee was made available to the prosecutor in the case, Claudio Oviedo, who He will be investigated in the next few hours accused of being a co-perpetrator of the crime of “theft qualified by the use of a firearm, criminis homicide causing two acts, one of them in the degree of attempt and possession of a war weapon.”
This Saturday the procedures continued to try to locate the other two suspects, Diego Eduardo Correa and Gustavo Julio Alberto Mac Dougallwho also have national and international capture requests.
The investigators’ suspicion is that Potenza, a neighborhood mechanic, was the one who was driving the gray Volkswagen Gol car (owned by “Uruguayo” Rodríguez Sierra) in which the perpetrators of the Izzo crime arrived and fled.
“El Uruguayo” expanded his statement
Meanwhile, the other detainee who has the case, Walter Rodriguez Sierraknown as “El Uruguayo”, expanded his investigative statement before the prosecutor and insisted on his innocence, judicial sources reported.
The man was transferred from the cell in which he was staying at the Departmental Directorate of Investigations (DDI) of Morón to the Oviedo prosecutor’s office to expand the investigation.
Rodríguez Sierra, who had been the street manager in charge of the electoral campaigns of the Juntos por el Cambio party in Morón since 2015 and that during the management of Ramiro Tagliaferro he worked as a driver for a government secretary, he insisted on his innocence and repeated that he is totally unrelated to the facts with which he is accused.
After the extension of the investigation, the defendant became decompensated and had to be transferred to the Sanatorio de Oeste de Ituzaingó, where he was treated and, once stabilized, was taken back to his place of detention.
The health part and the facts
Petinari’s relatives told Télam that the woman is in a very delicate state and remains serious, after suffering sharp injuries to her body and the loss of her right eyeball as a result of a knife.
“He is still serious but stable. We are waiting for him to recover and come out little by little,” said Adolfo Petinari, brother of the injured woman.
The event occurred on Friday, June 9 at 4:20 a.m. in a house on Calle Italia 1077, a few blocks from the center of the San Antonio de Padua station, where Izzo, owner of a sawmill in the western suburbs, lived next to to his wife Petinari, daughter of the owner of the company “Petinari”, dedicated to the manufacture of trailers, dump trucks and semi-trailers, from the Merlo district.
At least two criminals forced an American-type wooden blind from the house and entered, after which they surprised the couple.
Outside, two other criminals were waiting for them inside a gray Volkswagen Gol Power as a “bell”.
Rodríguez Sierra was arrested after the discovery of the Gol Power car used to commit the crime.
According to the sources, Izzo woke up to noises and grabbed two weapons of his own that he kept in his room – a Bersa .40 caliber pistol and a .38 revolver – and left the room to see what was happening.
In these circumstances, he confronted the criminals, who shot him with firearms and also stabbed him.
The victim also fired, although only with the revolver since the pistol jammed and apparently did not hit anyone, the spokesmen added.
Izzo was hit by at least five projectiles and died on the spot as a result of the bullet and knife injuries that the criminals inflicted on him, while his wife was stabbed and beaten.
Also in the house was the mother of the injured woman, Elsa Otruba de Petinari (83), who was unharmed as she did not leave the room.
Days after the crime, Rodríguez Sierra, owner of the Gol in which the thieves fled, was arrested, and his son and an 18-year-old boy were also arrested, who were released.
