The Quirihue Guarantee judge, Adolfo Montenegro, finally granted the request for preventive detention that the Public Ministry had raised against Ricardo Neira Arriagada, the 44-year-old man who was formalized during the present day for the crime of femicide against Carolina Fuentes Bustos, whose body was found this Monday in the Ñuble River.

The hearing lasted more than two hours with two recesses due to the defense’s need to know the background of the investigative folder, as well as the magistrate himself.

According to the antecedents given in the hearing, the man would have murdered the woman causing suffocation and suffocation on June 30, after which he hid the body in an area near Quirihue, looking for it again in July to finally leave it in the Ñuble River , where he was dragged to where he was found.

Complex antecedents that are part of the investigation carried out by the civil police, in conjunction with the Public Ministry, and which led to Nera’s preventive detention.

Finally, an initial period of eight months for the investigation was set.

This article describes an ongoing legal process

There is a possibility that the charges will be dismissed at the end of the investigation, therefore The accused (s) should NOT be considered guilty until Justice dictates sentence against him.
(Article 04 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)

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