Man held in remains case may be freed, lawyer says
Authorities have identified someone else as a suspect. “He doesn’t belong in jail because they found a dead body and he knew the guy,’’ Scott Bradley, who was appointed this week to represent Azurdia-Montenegro, said in a telephone interview.
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"Remains found in Duxbury identified as Guatemalan man" by Laura Crimaldi | Globe Staff August 04, 2014
BROCKTON — A Guatemalan man whose remains were found last week in a cardboard box in Duxbury had a 14-inch incision bisecting his abdomen that may have been made to empty the contents of his stomach, prosecutors said Monday.
Sounds like he ran into an organ-harvesting operation.
Related: EU Establishes Kosovo Court
It was persecution against ethnic Serbs to harvest and sell their
organs, just like Israel's Palestine organ-harvesting ring, the one one
South Africa, and on and on.
It's a very underreported and scary aspect of the "global health
$y$tem," sorry to say (again, jwho owns the ma$$ media). Now you can
maybe understand why scum like Kissinger, Bush, and Rockefeller seem to
live forever (as well as lots of Jews according to my Globe obits. They
also in the 80-90s).
Plymouth County prosecutors revealed those details as they identified the man as Estuardo Leonel Melgar Perez. The 44-year-old Guatemalan national arrived in the United States on a flight from Honduras on July 25, two days before his remains were found, said Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz in a statement.
The incision stretched from the breast bone to the pelvis, but investigators didn’t find any internal damage except for a “careful cut to the stomach, presumably to access the contents
of the stomach,” said Assistant District Attorney Peter Maguire. He
didn’t say what, if anything, was being sought from Melgar Perez’s
stomach. Melgar Perez didn’t have other injuries, according to Maguire.
Maguire disclosed information about the remains during an arraignment in
Brockton District Court for Jose Milthon Freddy Azurdia-Montenegro, 55,
a Guatemalan national who is charged with witness intimidation related to accusations that he misled police investigating his countryman’s death.
State Police met Azurdia-Montenegro at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York as he was trying to board a plane to Honduras early Saturday; he voluntarily returned to Massachusetts for questioning, Maguire said. Melgar Perez was scheduled to take the same flight, Cruz’s office said.
Investigators connected the two men after learning Melgar Perez had listed a Massachusetts resident as a local contact, Maguire said. That person provided authorities with access to his cellphone, which in turn led investigators to Azurdia-Montenegro, Maguire said.
Azurdia-Montenegro returned to Massachusetts with police from New York and was questioned, said defense attorney Scott Bradley.
He initially told officers he never left New York while visiting the
United States, had met Melgar Perez on only one occasion months ago, and
wasn’t aware of his death, Maguire said. Azurdia-Montenegro did
disclose that he and Melgar Perez are both in the car industry, the
prosecutor said.
Officers then confronted Azurdia-Montenegro with evidence and
also had someone they had interviewed speak with Azurdia-Montenegro,
Maguire said. That person told Azurdia-Montenegro, “They know. You
should speak with them,” Maguire recounted. Azurdia-Montenegro then
acknowledged he knew Melgar Perez for five or six years and had been in
the Boston area.
Bradley identified the person who spoke with his client as Hector Perez and said Azurdia-Montenegro was in the area to purchase vehicles from Perez’s brother, Jose, to be shipped back to Guatemala. Jose Perez has an auto body shop in Boston, Bradley said. Neither Jose nor Hector Perez could be reached Monday.
Officers also asked Azurdia-Montenegro about a person “who may or may not have been involved in the drug trade,”
Maguire said. He didn’t identify the person. Azurdia-Montenegro
initially denied knowing the person, but then reversed himself, Maguire
said. He also told police that Melgar Perez knew the person.
Could be that, too.
Bradley said Azurdia-Montenegro has no connection to the drug trade, didn’t commit a crime, and immediately corrected false information he gave
to police. He said Azurdia-Montenegro and Melgar Perez arrived in the
United States separately and traveled here to buy cars and ship them
home.
“It’s somewhat disturbing that the State Police are now arresting people who haven’t committed any crimes just to force them to stick around because they think they’ll run away in case they have further questions for them in the future,” Bradley said.
Related: Free of Telex
Well....
District Judge Julie Bernard set bail at $10,000 and approved a request
to impound a police report filed in Azurdia-Montenegro’s case.
No one answered the phone Monday at the Guatemalan consulate’s New England office and an e-mail was not returned.
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UPDATE: Man pleads guilty to misleading police in death investigation
