David “Guiso” Sandoval, 28 years old, became known in February of this year after his image on top of a group in the Laferrere brava bar went viral while showing a machine gun in broad daylight. Now the man was arrested for participating in a break-in at a hairdresser’s house.
The investigation led by prosecutor Federico Medone led to the arrest of Sandoval and his companions, Carlos Iván Fernández and Emanuel Zelaya González, after receiving an alert about the presence of three armed men in a home in Laferrere. The rapid response of the Police made it possible to thwart the robbery attempt.
The owner of the house told the Police that she was surprised by the criminals, who after force the gate of your home, they demanded money. The arrival of the officers allowed two of the assailants to be captured inside the property and the other on the roof of a neighboring home.
Inside the property, firearms were found, including a 9 millimeter caliber pistol and a .38 caliber revolver, as well as tools used to force entry to the victim’s home. In addition, they seized a white Renault Sandero vehicle that had been used by the assailants.
The cover is “Robbery aggravated by the use of a firearm and for being in an ‘entradera’ town and band, illegal possession and carrying of military firearms.”
Sandoval had an arrest warrant since February, when the video of Laferrere fans going to the stadium with firearms went viral. He, identified as “Guiso”, brought out a machine gun, hanging from the back door of the bus line in which the fans moved.
After going viral, Aprevide requested ex officio action from the Functional Instruction and Trial Unit (UFIJ) number 1 of Laferrere, led by prosecutor Gastón Duplaa.
Six days later, the first three people between the ages of 33 and 35 who were in the same vehicle that in the viralized images were guiding the bus on line 96 that had been “taken over” by the bars fell.
In that operation they seized the car, a Renault Clio, 15 cell phones, nine Laferrere club t-shirts, three shorts and two long pants with the same insignia, two snare drums and six drumsticks, among other items.
The inside of the Lafe bar
There are two groups that are fighting for control of the bar: “La 79” and “La Familia Villera”. The situation worsens because one of the groups has the support of “Chaki Chan”, the alias by which Nicolás Nahuel Guimil, a drug trafficker from the Buenos Aires suburbs, is known.
Chaki Chan has been in prison for more than six months, but he maintains his power behind bars and commands one of the factions, with which he protects his illegal activity. In 2022, he offered the head of the Laferrere brava gang the possibility of having the members of that group distribute his drugs. The refusal had an immediate response: a group of hitmen on two motorcycles ambushed the bar’s car and fired a burst of 20 bullets, of which five hit.
He saved his life and got away from the paravalanches, which remained in the hands of the people who respond to Chaki Chan. However, when the drug trafficker was arrested a year later, the former leader of the bar began to draw up a plan to regain control with his group calling itself “La 79.”
In the middle of last year, they also arrested the person who had been Laferrere’s vice president until August 2022, Esteban Quiñones, whom Justice investigated for links to La Familia Villera, the faction that controls Chaki Chan.