The dog instructor who planted evidence in the case of Facundo Astudillo Castro was sentenced to 7 years in prison

In the province of Río Negro, Marcos Herrero participated as expert some emblematic cases such as the disappearances of Lucas Muñoz, Magdalena Curaqueo and Luis Sosa. The entry Marcos Herrero was sentenced to seven years in prison for false testimony was first published in Noticias de Río Negro and Neuquén.

Marcos Herrero was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He lied to involve police officers in the young man's death.

The dog instructor Marcos Herrero was convicted in Bahía Blanca for the crime of “false aggravated testimony” in the Facundo Astudillo Castro case. Herrero had declared in the trial for the disappearance and subsequent death of the young man in 2020 and, according to the Justice, lied and planted evidence that could have diverted the investigation. On Tuesday, the Oral Court in the Federal Criminal case Bahian sentenced him to 7 years and 8 mont…

Marcos Herrero intervened as an expert in the cause of the disappearance and death of the young man in Bahía Blanca in 2020. In addition, he was disqualified from exercising his profession for 14 years. Read more

Five years after the death of the young man in Bahía Blanca, he was convicted by the Federal Oral Court of that city.

Astudillo Castro had disappeared in April 2020 after a police check and his body was found three and a half months later in a sector located in an area of crabs in the town of General Daniel Cerri, in the party of Bahía Blanca. Canine instructor Marcos Herrero, who participated in the framework of the raids in the investigation for the death and disappearance of Facundo Astudillo Castro, in the middle of the pandemic for the coronavirus, was sen…