"Pequeño J" speaks from Ezeiza and denies being the man in the torture video
Tony Janzen Valverde, accused of the triple femicide in Florencio Varela, denied his participation in the leaked video. An accomplice was arrested in Lima.
"Pequeño J" denies being present in the torture video and requests anthropometric assessment
Tony Janzen Valverde, alias "Pequeño J", the main accused in the triple drug-related femicide that occurred in September 2025 in Florencio Varela, spoke with infobae.com from the Ezeiza prison after a video was leaked showing the torture inflicted on Lara Gutiérrez, the 15-year-old victim, the youngest of the three women murdered.
In the images, two men surround the adolescent: one restrains her while the other amputates her little finger with a bolt cutter. For the federal Justice system, the man holding Lara—with a telephone in his hand and with physical characteristics that match—is Janzen Valverde.
"I am not the one in the video," Janzen Valverde said categorically. "I am willing to submit to an anthropometric assessment so that society and the judge can resolve the uncertainty because, truthfully, everything that may come out, however minor, can be used against me."
When asked whether he had the video in his possession, the accused was categorical: "No, I did not have the video on my telephone, because I was not at that murder, I knew nothing of the plan and I do not know what I am being accused of. That is why I handed over my telephone, I did not destroy it."
The material was found on the device of another member of the Bajo Flores gang. One persistent version of the case holds that the torture was broadcast live.
Arrest of an accomplice in Lima
Parallel to the report, infobae.com confirmed through high-level sources in the case that Abel Josuel Taya Humpire, another member of the same gang accused of the triple femicide, was arrested in the district of Santa Anita, in Lima, Peru. The arrest was carried out through a coordinated operation between the Argentine Federal Police and the Buenos Aires Central Bureau of Interpol.
Death threats in prison and case regarding the leak
Following the dissemination of the images, the defence of Janzen Valverde—headed by criminal lawyer Lucas Contreras Alderete—filed a complaint with Federal Court No. 2 of Morón, where the main case is being heard. According to the filing, other inmates in the high-risk prisoner sector of Ezeiza allegedly shouted at him "Mata conchas, we're going to make you shit" hours after the images were disseminated.
"I reported them because several prisoners want to retaliate against me. Those who published that video do not realise that, now, my life is in danger. It was just a threat, but they could have killed me. Since it happened, they have put a security protocol in place for me every day, they search my body to see if I suffered any aggression," Janzen Valverde stated.
Federal Court No. 2 of Morón opened a case yesterday to investigate the video leak. The defence complaint was filed, meanwhile, with Federal Court No. 3 of the same jurisdiction. "This coming Monday we are going to present ourselves as complainants in the case regarding the video leak and we are going to pursue it until we identify those responsible," said Contreras Alderete.
Defence strategy: video nullification and identity assessments
The defence lawyer furthermore anticipated that he would challenge the audiovisual material before the court. "We are going to argue for the nullification of the audiovisual material due to the invalidity of the transferred evidence and excess in the digital investigation, due to the violation of the right to defence in the production of irreproducible evidence, and due to the breaking of the chain of custody, as well as the loss of traceability," Contreras Alderete detailed.
The defence will furthermore request the carrying out of anthropometric assessments, scopometric assessments, facial comparison and voice recognition assessments to determine with certainty whether the man appearing in the video subduing Lara Gutiérrez is, or is not, "Pequeño J".
Source: Google News AR — Crime