A 41-year-old Cuban, who had been living in the United States for just over a year, was captured after being accused of the murder of a 25-year-old woman in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Dayren López Roque, originally from Havana, Cuba, was located and arrested at approximately 8:00 p.m. on Monday, August 9, in a jurisdiction in South Texas, 30 miles from the border with Mexico, local media Nashville Noticias reported.
The Cleveland Police Department is working with Texas officials and local law enforcement agencies in that area to bring him back to Tennessee to face first-degree murder charges for the death of the Cuban Dayana García, the source reports.
García was found dead last Sunday, September 8, by elements of the Cleveland Police Department, who responded to a call about a missing person over the weekend at 315 Northcrest Circle, the Cleveland TN Police Department noted on Facebook.
The young woman had last been seen on September 4. According to the information on her Facebook profile, she was the mother of a baby girl.
A police statement does not mention how García died, but it does say that investigators determined that the homicide was the result of a "domestic incident."
Investigators from the Cleveland Police Department, along with members of the Special Investigations Unit and the Criminal Intelligence Unit of the CPD, were involved in the capture of this man.
Roque was arrested by sheriff's deputies from Zavala County on Highway 57, in the town of La Pryor.
The patrol officers saw the brown Toyota Corolla, which had been circulated earlier because the fugitive was traveling in it, parked at a Family Dollar store and heading toward the border.
According to several sources, Roque had entered the United States on August 5, 2023, through San Ysidro, California, after applying for CBP One.
On February 24, he was arrested for domestic violence, but he was not convicted, so no arrest warrant was issued.
The authorities indicated that the investigation is still ongoing. "There is a lot of work ahead to ensure that Dayana García and her family receive the fair outcome they deserve," they said.
No details were provided about the relationship between the victim and their killer.
On August 26, another Cuban was arrested, but in Louisville, for the murder of his partner, a 32-year-old Cuban identified as Indira Almaguer, in July.
Marcelino Yande Fonseca Martínez, 35 years old, charged with murder - domestic violence, has been detained in the Louisville Correctional Facility while the judicial process continues.
It was also the case of Ernesto Ortiz Díaz, 53 years old, a Cuban detained in Louisville, Kentucky, after an incident in which he injured two people, a woman and a man, in the St. Denis neighborhood.
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