A second think has been charged with 3 counts of kill in cold blood is to deaths of 3 group found Mar 10 in a shoal grave nearby a Kent nursery.
Jose Alfredo Velez-Fombona, a 25-year-old Kent man, allegedly picked up the other suspect, Alberto Avila-Cardenas, before 3 victims were held with zip ties, killed and buried. The victims " Jesus Avila-Bejar, 25, Yazmani Quezada-Ortiz, 26, and Cristian Rangel, 19 " were buried in December and weren't found for more than 3 months.
Avila-Cardenas was charged progressing this month. He is being held without bail for scrutiny of illegally entering the country. Velez-Fombona moreover is locked up without bail on an immigration hold, prison archives show.
Velez-Fombona was identified from unit phone records, according to justice documents. The archives uncover him communicating with Avila-Cardenas whilst they waited is to victims to obtain off work and when they gathering to the area where the victims were buried, investigators said.
The 25-year-old was arrested Thursday afternoon and requisitioned in to King County Jail a couple of mins before 3 p.m.
Avila-Cardenas, a 36-year-old Lakewood resident, moreover is suspected in a slaying-dismemberment in Mexico.
The charges filed Monday came after months of scrutiny by Lakewood military and King County investigators. Avila-Cardenas had been taken in to control before long after the slayings " months before the bodies were found " on sovereign gun charges.
"The Lakewood Police Department put unusual bid in to this box when it was only a omitted persons inform and the Sheriff's Office was able to use that work to quickly erect a box against the defendant once the victims' bodies were found," King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg mentioned in a matter final week.
"This turn of hostility cannot be tolerated in any community, and the stubborn military work by both agencies reflects a undertaking to that principle."
Having filed 3 counts of first-degree kill in cold blood against Avila-Cardenas, Senior Deputy Prosecutor Scott O'Toole remarkable that prosecutors may still assign Avila-Cardenas with aggravated first-degree murder. If convicted on that charge, Avila-Cardenas would face life in prison or execution.
The 3 victims had left for work at Lake Union Wholesale Florist the sunrise of Dec. 12. When they didn't return, friends contacted police.
Lakewood detectives were able to keep track Bejar-Avila's mobile phone to the area where his body was finally found. He and the other group were detected months after that when a hothouse worker found the shoal graves.
Arraignment, where they are approaching to come in a plea, is set for 9 a.m. May 26 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
The kill in cold blood charges add firearm enhancements and if convicted as charged, any defendant faces a judgment operation of 75 to 95 years in prison, according to prosecutors.
Dan Donohoe, a orator is to King County Prosecutor's Office, mentioned the scrutiny is continuing and extra and nice charges are possible.
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Casey McNerthney may be reached at 206-448-8220 or caseymcnerthney@seattlepi.com. Follow Casey on Twitter at twitter.com/mcnerthney .
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