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One of the bristles bodies accused in the March 17 robbery and assassination at La Placita bazaar on Morgantown Road told board he was apprenticed to accomplish robberies to accord his debt to a co-defendant who helped him access the United States illegally.
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A federal bent complaint apparent Wednesday accuse Jorge Santos Caballero-Melgar, Jonny Alexander Relles-Martinez, Jose Adan Mejia Varela, Lilian Duron and Estrellita Soto with arrest with business by threats or abandon and use of a firearm during a abomination of violence, causing afterlife in the adventure at La Placita. Jose Cruz, 31, of Bowling Green, was attempt in advanced of his accouchement during the robbery while aggravating to intervene.
Duron, of Nashville, who is articular as Varela’s adherent in accompaniment cloister records, and Soto, who is articular in those aforementioned annal as Caballero-Melgar’s girlfriend, were ahead answerable with first-degree robbery in Warren Circuit Cloister and accept been in Warren County Regional Jail back their arrests Oct. 1. Those accuse were absolved Wednesday afterwards prejudice, and the two women are now in federal custody, Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney Chris Cohron said.
Bowling Green badge initially advised the adventure in which Detective Mike Nade was the advance investigator.
“Once afresh I am abundantly beholden of the assignment by the Bowling Green Badge Department, led by Detective Mike Nade, in analytic such a alarming act,” Cohron said.
Duron and Soto fabricated their aboriginal federal cloister actualization Wednesday in Bowling Green. Relles-Martinez fabricated his antecedent cloister actualization from the Leavenworth Detention Center in Kansas on Tuesday. Caballero-Melgar and Varela are in the aegis of the commonwealth of Virginia and are appointed to be in cloister Nov. 29 in Bowling Green.
“The La Placita assassination is one of a cord of at atomic 12 agitated robberies occurring in Hispanic food beyond Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina,” according to the federal bent complaint.
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Investigators doubtable a accumulation of about 11 bodies in these robberies admitting not anniversary being alternate in all of the robberies.
At 2:58 p.m. March 17, two armed men entered La Placita, bound the aperture abaft them and accepted cash, according to the federal bent complaint.
Cruz accustomed at the abundance to aces up his son from his ex-wife, who were both central the abundance forth with accession developed woman and a 10-year-old girl, said Kim Quintanilla, a babe of the abundance owner, in an account with the Daily News in March.
Quintanilla said that back Cruz did not see his son appear out of the store, he got out of his agent area his added accouchement were seated, begin the aperture bound and alleged the store.
The store’s speakers are affiliated wirelessly to the telephone, and the campanology buzz abashed the robbers inside. As they absitively to leave and opened the door, Cruz’s ex-wife yelled that the men had aloof beggared the store.
Cruz attempted to arbitrate and was attempt back he affective one of the robbers, Quintanilla said. The 10-year-old babe alleged 911. The women had been angry up.
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Federal cloister annal appearance Relles-Martinez accepted battlefront the ammo that dead Cruz. He told board Caballero-Melgar had assisted him in illegally entering the United States.
For this assistance, Relles-Martinez was accepted to accord Caballero-Melgar the money he spent to get Relles-Martinez into the country, according to federal cloister records. Relles-Martinez told board Caballero-Melgar told him he bare to alpha earning money to accord his debt to Caballero-Melgar and Relles-Martinez could do that by committing robberies, cloister annal show.
When Relles-Martinez entered the country, he said Caballero-Melgar provided him with an identification agenda in the name of Agustin Flores. Relles-Martinez acclimated this name while in the country and additionally went by the appellation Miranac.
Relles-Martinez told board that Varela and Caballero-Melgar alleged him the morning of the robbery and asked him to participate. He said one of the two men provided him with a gun to use. The three met in a Walmart parking lot afore the robbery, according to cloister records. Relles-Martinez said Caballero-Melgar served as the lookout.
During his account with investigators, Relles-Martinez said he and Varela were central the abundance back Cruz absolved in and began angry with him. Varela attempted to advice him by hitting Cruz. Relles-Martinez said he accursed one annular during the fight, cloister annal show. The ammo aching Varela in the bend and again hit Cruz.
Relles-Martinez told board he alone his cellphone during the fight. BGPD acquired a chase accreditation for the buzz that showed an email abode of agustinfloresmanzanayes@gmail.com was associated with the buzz number. Annal acquired through a admirable board amendment articular the subscriber as Agustin Flores, the name Relles-Martinez had been application back entering the country, cloister annal show.
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Relles-Martinez said Varela gave the two accoutrements acclimated in the robbery to Caballero-Melgar, who afterwards told Relles-Martinez he beatific the accoutrements to Honduras.
Relles-Martinez told board all three men catholic afterwards the robbery to a Home Depot parking lot in Madison, Tenn., area they disconnected the $12,000 taken from La Placita.
Varela told board he was kidnapped and affected to participate in two robberies, cloister annal show. Varela’s cellphone annal appearance his buzz pinging abreast La Placita afterwards the robbery and at two added robbery locations at the almost day and time of the those robberies, annal show. Varela additionally told board he did not apprehend or see a gunshot alike admitting video surveillance shows him in La Placita angry with Cruz back Cruz was shot.
Duron told board she and Soto went into La Placita afore the robbery to wire money at the administration of Caballero-Melgar, Varela and Relles-Martinez. Duron said the three men planned the robbery. Duron told board that while she and Soto were central the store, Soto was talking to Caballero-Melgar on the buzz to acquaint him area the money was kept, according to cloister records.
Soto told board Caballero-Melgar gave her money the night afore and she was not abiding what Caballero-Melgar was accomplishing the day she was in Bowling Green, cloister annal show.
In accession to BGPD, assorted law administration agencies, including the FBI, advised this and added accompanying crimes, according to the complaint.
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