Three vehicles reported stolen in Brazil were seized in Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay, after a Toyota Fortuner was located using a tracking device. The Public Prosecutor’s Office also found a Chevrolet Tracker and a Hyundai HB20 without license plates; their chassis numbers indicated that both had been reported stolen in the neighboring country.
The silver 2019 Fortuner had Paraguayan license plate AAWZ 321 and was stolen on November 20, 2025. Its tracking device sent intermittent signals: first from a warehouse in Ciudad del Este, then from the city of Caaguazú, and finally from Coronel Oviedo. The search began after a report by attorney Jonathan Gómez Nicolino, the legal representative of an insurance company.
The vehicles were parked on Aquidabán Street, at the corner of Teniente de la Mora, near the Caaguazú Investigations Department base. On Friday afternoon, a team from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, led by prosecutor Carlos Antonio Almada Barreto of Unit 1 in Ciudad del Este, carried out the operation.
The investigation is examining suspicions that officers from the Investigations Department were using the vehicles; the officers’ responsibility has not been established. No one came forward to claim responsibility for the vehicles during the operation. The Fortuner’s driver did not appear, and its key could not be found, so the vehicle was towed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Ciudad del Este. The keys to the Tracker and HB20 were handed over, and both vehicles were held at the Public Prosecutor’s Office headquarters in Coronel Oviedo.
The case follows the discovery the previous week of luxury pickup trucks of questionable origin, with documents suspected of being falsified, among members of the Police Anti-Narcotics Department. That was a separate incident, also involving vehicles of suspected origin within a police unit.