Facundo Mauricio Balbuena Villasboa, 19, was arrested as the main suspect in the murder of María Celeste Segovia Colmán, 31, whose body was found in a wooded area in Nueva Italia. The suspect was already under house arrest for attempted intentional homicide.
Criminalística
Unidad de la Policía Nacional de Paraguay especializada en investigaciones forenses y peritajes.
A Toyota Hilux pickup was recovered by police after a home invasion in Juan León Mallorquín. The victims, an elderly couple aged 78 and 75, were held up by five to six armed men who took cash and cell phones. The vehicle was located via GPS tracking in a soybean field.
A 16-year-old teenager died on Sunday after falling from his motorcycle on Route PY02 in Dr. Juan Eulogio Estigarribia (formerly Campo 9). Police are investigating whether he was participating in an illegal race at the time of the accident.
Mónica Idalia González Piazzoli, 26, and her 7-year-old son were found dead in a rented room in the Santa Luísa neighborhood of Lambaré. Police are investigating the hypothesis of filicide followed by suicide. A letter attributed to the woman, also published on her WhatsApp status, alleges that her ex-partner and the boy's biological father sexually abused and mistreated the child. The allegations have not been verified by authorities, and the prosecutor's office is investigating their veracity.
A woman killed her own son and took her own life in Lambaré, Paraguay. Family members claim the boy's father had sexually abused the child when he was 3 years old and that the case had already been reported to the authorities.
In the early hours of Saturday, a man on a motorcycle fired several shots at the facade of the Pax Conesul Funeral Home in downtown Pedro Juan Caballero. No one was injured. The owner, Lucía Morel Alves, who lives in the same building, told police the attack may be linked to a dispute with another funeral business.
A Toyota Auris was found ablaze on Saturday afternoon in Barrero Guazú, a district of Cambyretá, Itapúa. Inside the vehicle, firefighters found a completely charred body. The victim's identity has not yet been confirmed.