From the campaign in robberies to the head of dealers of a villa: the rise in the underworld and the fall of “La Tía Mari”

Today, Friday morning, the Federal Police took Martha Luz Gómez Pacheco, accused of being the head of the dealers of the town of La Carbonilla, the Buenos Aires settlement located next to the San Martín railway tracks at the height of Paternal. The Department of Intelligence against Organized Crime under the Superintendency of Criminal Intelligence raided seven points and achieved another six arrests: Martha Luz was seized with dust, computers and silver.

There were other ladies dealers in La Carbonilla, Peruvian like her. Magali Vazquez Huamán was arrested in April 2021 for selling drugs in her candy kiosk, but Martha Luz was a rude. His gang threatened two neighbors at gunpoint, which triggered the case against them in Court No. 48. She was also a strategist.

With her nephew Edward as lieutenant, Martha — mother of three children, born in Lima in 1975, alias “La Tía Mari” — dedicated herself to coordinating and hiring the members of her gang and counting bills in the cave where her assistants tied bags and attended shoppers on WhatsApp. Among its dealers there was, for example, a bar of the Comunicaciones club. It had drivers and errands, both Argentinean and Peruvian. He was also detected a fleet of six cars, not in his name, since he apparently has a front man. So, they took her away.

She looked annoyed while they handcuffed her. It wasn't for less. The break-in and the cage cut off one of the most meteoric ascents in recent history. Years ago, “Aunt Mari” was doing something else.

In March 2017, Court No. 23 gave Pacheco six years in prison for the crime of robbery in town and gang. They also unified a previous sentence, six months of bars for violent usurpation. But the mechanics of those robberies for which she was convicted were not the usual, they were not cano attacks on shops, but rather finer things. “Mari”, to begin with, did not go out to rob together with a band of angry boys, but with historical thieves, skilled at taking what was foreign. They went into houses, always with a story. Or, directly, they created the scene.

In May 2015, Gómez Pacheco and other members of his band usurped a house on Pergamino Street to catch a well-known real estate entrepreneur, whom they called to ask for an appraisal. There, they beat him and tied him with a tie he was wearing. They took the keys to her house and went to rob her. They took computers, cameras. Also, they found a key to a safe deposit box at a bank. The businessman was still reduced in the house where he was summoned, watched by a member. On the other end of the phone, he received orders from the gang that ransacked the house to squeeze his victim, who was abandoned there and was able to get out of his ties thanks to neighbors who heard him screaming.

A month earlier, they usurped another large domicile on Calle Chacabuco, which is now a gym. They turned it into a pension for single mothers, people easy to evict. They sold rooms for ten thousand pesos each.

Today's “Aunt” denied all accusations against her in the case. He said he didn't know any of his accomplices, who lived by subletting his house, selling vegetables and clothes from La Salada at a fair. The wiretaps gave him away. It didn't even have a great function. It was barely a bell in the band. He had already had other causes against him: theft, use of false private documents, minor things.

Shortly after her conviction, Chamber I of the House released her from prison following a request from her defense, with a favorable vote by the current Federal Prison Service auditor, Maria Laura Garrigós de Rebori. A year later, the National Directorate of Migration requested that she be expelled from Argentina. Martha Luz raised an opposition with her defense, arguing that her children were Argentines.

The process stretched for years. On November 18, 2021, Chamber I of the House in Federal Administrative Litigation ruled in her favor, probably while she became the alleged transa chief of a town in Buenos Aires.

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