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Attack of Three Casino
Workers Could Have Been
Avoided, Says Fiscal
General
Two men are in police
custody after the murder
of one a hotel casino
worker and the shooting
of her sister and
co-worker in the early
hours of Tuesday morning
shocked the nation.
Twenty four year old,
Yerlín Marín Salazar,
and mother of six year
old child, was gunned
down and left at the
side of the road in San
Antonio de Belén, while
her sister, Arelis, 28,
was left for dead near
the Próspero Fernández
highway in Escazú and
co-workers, Angie Peraza
Fernández, 25, was found
in the Alto de las
Palomas de Heredia.
All three women worked
at the Jazz Casino
located in the White
Hotel in Escazú and were
attacked shortly after
leaving work at 1:00am.
Jorge Rojas, director of
the Organismo de
Investigación Judicial (OIJ),
said last night that two
men identified only by
their last names, Mena
(28) and Mora (26),
where in custody.
Rojas described the two
men as "delincuentes
comunes que mataron para
robar" (common criminals
who killed for stealing)
and not serial killers
as authorities first
believed.
Rojas added that a 24
year old women,
identified by her last
name Arias, was also
arrested. Authorities
would only say Arias is
the girlfriend of one of
the assailants and not
give out any more
details on the case of
the woman.
Authorities saw
similarities in the
cases of two couples
murdered in June and
August, as three
incidents all involved a
shot to the head and at
close range and the
bodies dumped in
different locations.
Rojas added that the
link between the murders
this week and those in
June and August are only
a suspicion on the part
of the investigators.
Investigators concluded
that the assailants
chose their victims are
random with the motive
of robbery.
"None of the victims
resisted, they killed
for pleasure, just for
the simple joy of doing
so", said director
Rojas.
with good evidence
pointing them,
authorities raided a
number of homes where
they confiscated a
shotgun, a 9mm handgun
and a bulletproof vest,
along witha cellular
telephone that belong to
one of the vicitms in
the August murders.
Rojas said that the
vehicle the two men used
in the murder, a white
four door Hyunday
Accent, was not found
and is believed to be
well hidden.
Mora was the first to be
arrested when he
presdented himself at
the Fiscalía, in San
José, to sign in as a
condition of bail on
charges of robbery for
which he is awaiting
trial.
Mena, was found by
police at a home of his
friend in Comunidad Paz
de Lomas del Río, Pavas,
where he had been
staying since the murder
on Tuesday. The woman,
Arias, was detained at
her place of work at an
office in Pavas.
The Fiscal General de la
República, Francisco
Dall’Anese (Attorney
General), did not waste
time to push for reforms
to the criminal code to
develop a police
information database
which is part of the law
to combat organized
crime.
"For a failure at best
would we could have
prevented this death
(the death of Yerlín
)because these people
would have been in
detention some time",
said the Fiscal General.
Dall’Anese said that the
crimes on Tuesday could
have been prevented if
such a database existed,
a tool that police could
have used to share
information. |
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