enforcing duties in the province until the dispute was resolved in his favor. This earned him the respect and affection of his co-workers. Laguna de Robles On October 10 of 1991, in Laguna de Robles, a rural locality in the northern area of Tucumán, three presumed criminals were found murdered. Their names were José "Coco" Menéndez, Hugo "Yegua Verde" Vera and Ricardo "El Pelao" Andrada. Ferreyra argued that the victims had been killed in an armed clash and formed part of a dangerous gang of robbers. In November of that same year, he accused some other high-ranking officers of misappropriation of public funds. These same police officers would, the day after the accusations, discharge him from the force. He was later accused of executing the three victims of the Laguna de Robles murders, and on December 9 he handed himself over to justice. The trial started on November 26, 1993. He was found guilty on December 14, but escaped the Courthouse by threatening to blow himself and the other people present in the room with a grenade he had brought hidden somewhere. 79 days later he was surrounded by federal forces in Zorro Muerto, in the neighboring province of Santiago del Estero. He was sent to Villa Urquiza prison, where he was supposed to spend 20 years. but was set free much sooner. The governor of Tucumán at the time, Antonio Domingo Bussi, was a former military officer who had taken part in the Process of National Reorganization and was fond of Malevo, so he reduced his sentence in 1996. Later life and death He would spend the rest of his life living in his property in San Andrés, a few kilometers from his place of birth. In 2008, during the trials for crimes against humanity that took place during the Kirchnerism government, he was again prosecuted for crimes he had supposedly committed during the Dirty War. On November 21, Gendarmería Nacional was sent to his house to arrest him. He climbed up a water tower and was followed by a TV camera crew from national news broadcaster Crónica TV. As he saw he had been surrounded by about 20 policemen, and with no intention of going back to prison, he took a gun and shot himself in the head. He had stated earlier that day that he would take any measure in order not to go to jail again.