Police Uncover Cocaine Hidden in Lamp, Aid Murder Investigations

DEBARYLIFE – Investigators in Miami are aware that someone mailed a light fixture from Puerto Rico to Osceola County to conceal three kilograms of cocaine. This aided them in the course of their continuing investigation into two Central Florida homicides.

Dennis Lemma, the sheriff for Seminole County, stated that the two killings were connected by a 2002 forest green Acura, which is the only one in Florida, and unusual 10mm ammunition that were fired at both crime scenes.

On April 10, a father named Juan Cintron was assassinated in the Taft region of Orange County. On April 11, Katherine Guerrero was found dead in Osceola County after being abducted in Seminole County.

“This has a connection,” Lemma stated on Friday.

The mother, who was born in the Dominican Republic, lived far from her deep south Miami-Dade County home and beauty parlors, according to the authorities.

Juan Luis Cintron Garcia, better known as Cintron, worked as a tow truck driver. He had towed the forest-green Acura that Guerrero’s killer would later use. He was 39 when he was towed on March 19 for parking illegally in Orange County.

An armed kidnapper was seen on camera leaping out of the green Acura before robbing Guerrero, whose real name is Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas, according to a witness’s footage.

Miguel Aguasvivas, Guerrero’s spouse, aroused the suspicions of the detectives.

Lemma stated at a press conference that “I think he knows a lot more than what he shared” and that Aguasvivas is not a suspect in a homicide.

Deputy Francisco Estrella was taken into custody by authorities in Orange County on April 14. Aguasvivas was purportedly friends with the deputy’s wife as a youngster, and Estrella was charged with abusing his position to provide him with information regarding the investigation.

When Monicsabel Romero-Soto showed up at a property in Osceola County with a baby, federal and local law officers met her and that’s when the cocaine-containing lamp fixture came into play.

Romero-Soto, 27, was detained by US Homeland Security officers on April 17. Romero-Soto and her lover, Giovany Crespo, resided in a house where Seminole deputies searched and found money, fentanyl, and a gun.

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It is believed by investigators that Guerrero spoke with Crespo—also going by the name Giovany Joel Crespo Hernandez—during her visit to Central Florida.

Lemma stated that Guerrero’s husband claimed she traveled to Central Florida to visit relatives, and her brother Luis Guerrero subsequently informed officers that Crespo had informed him she was in the area to provide “money and other stuff for a friend.”

Deputies said that Jordanish Torres-Garcia was taken into custody in Central Florida on Friday. Investigators also linked Jordanish “Jordan” Torres-Garcia to the acquisition of the green Acura, and on April 19, the U.S. Marshals Service detained him (Seminole County Sheriff’s Office). A criminal warrant for his possession of guns was still in effect.

Lemma stated, “His phone number matches the one that was provided by the person who purchased the green Acura.”

Investigators believe that Torres-Garcia, 28, was the shooter in the witness’s abduction footage before Guerrero’s disappearance.

During a press conference on Friday, Lemma stated, “He is wanted for gun charges out of Puerto Rico,” adding that he was suspected of breaking the terms of his probation.

Lemma claimed that Torres-Garcia was wearing the same mask and attire in his Facebook profile photo as the kidnapper had worn before the murder.

In Seminole County, Jordanish Torres-Garcia, 28, was taken into custody on Friday.
Lemma described the footage as “extremely frightening” because of the perpetrator’s audacity in getting out of the automobile, wearing a hood, brandishing a weapon in broad daylight, and entering the car.

In these situations, prosecutors have not yet brought murder charges.

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“It hasn’t been proven that ‘Jordan’ and Katherine are directly connected,” Lemma stated.

The deputy who was arrested, Estrella, 33, was charged with intercepting wire, oral, or electronic communications; disclosing wire, oral, or electronic communications; using or disclosing confidential criminal justice information; using a two-way communication device unlawfully; and using or exceeding permission to access computers or electronic devices.

Romero-Soto, 27, was charged in Osceola County with trafficking in cocaine. Lemma identified Crespo Hernandez and Torres-Garcia as persons of interest even though they were not charged with the crimes.

Lemma added that even with increased access to data and documents, detectives were still trying to put the “pieces of the puzzle” together.

Lemma stated, “We are extremely confident in the evidence we will be able to gather.”