Four individuals were arrested for the murder of the Holguin motorist Armando Argelio Pérez Zaldívar, the Interior Ministry reported on Wednesday. Pérez, 49, was seen for the last time on December 24 and his body was found this Tuesday, according to relatives on social networks.
In a statement published by the Radio Angulo station, the authorities indicated that the private carrier, on the morning of December 24, “left his home with a passenger bound for San Andrés”, in the municipality of Holguín, and “did not return, after which he was denounced as absent. to the address “.
The detainees are between 29 and 33 years old and three of them have a criminal record. Armando’s motorcycle was seized from one of them, already disarmed.
During the interrogations, the report continues, two of those arrested “confessed to having murdered him and buried him in an unpopulated area with abundant vegetation in the town of San Andrés, the place where he was found.”
The perpetrators of the crime “alleged as a motive, that their objective was to appropriate the means of transport and sell it in order to pay off a debt of 50,000 pesos,” the statement said.
The perpetrators of the crime “alleged as a motive, that their objective was to appropriate the means of transport and sell it in order to pay off a debt of 50,000 pesos,” the statement said.
After the disappearance of the man from Holguin, the relatives shared photos of Pérez with his motorcycle on social networks requesting information about his whereabouts. He was driving the vehicle “with license plate R-90411” and at the time he left his home “he was wearing a sweater and light blue jeans with a green long-sleeved shirt and white tennis shoes,” read some of the messages posted on Facebook.
In the eastern provinces, private motorcycle passages are very common, mainly in Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and more recently Holguín. This means of transport has become essential for the daily lives of residents in these provinces where public service is deficient.
Motorcycles currently cost, depending on the brand, about $ 9,000 on average and in the absence of parts in the country, those that are stolen are sold on the black market for parts.
At the beginning of 2020, the motorcyclist Daniel Martinez Pupo He was also found dead in a neighborhood of Holguín. The 24-year-old’s remains were found in three bags buried in the Alcides Pino garbage dump.
The mastermind of the crime, as it became known, allegedly owed the victim money and the Prosecutor’s Office requested life imprisonment for four people accused of murdering and dismembering the young man. The family was the one who found the clues to reach the alleged murderers after several days of intense searching.
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