Three of the suspects in the death of Venezuelan taxi driver Rossana Delgado, who
was killed after mysteriously disappearing
in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, were captured in Mexico, authorities in Georgia reported Monday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) confirmed today that
Megan Colone, 30, Óscar Manuel García, 26, and Juan Antonio Vega, 25, are already being held
in a prison in Texas and They will be transferred to Georgia to face murder charges in the death of Delgado.
The authorities are still looking for Juan Ayala Rodríguez and Mario Alberto Barbosa Juárez, the other two suspects in the death of the 37-year-old Venezuelan, whose
body was found on April 20 in a cabin
in the north of the state, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from where he lived with his family.
[They confirm the death of a Venezuelan taxi driver who had been missing for days in Georgia]
Delgado was missing for four days after she traveled through a journey in the town of Chamblee, in the Atlanta metropolitan area, according to her husband, Yhony Castro,
who reported the case to the authorities after finding masks with blood
in the last place where the GPS on his wife's phone returned a location.
Telemundo Atlanta / Courtesy of family
Castro had been desperately searching for her for days throughout DeKalb County, along with other relatives.
In a conversation with Telemundo Atlanta, Castro explained what he said the last time they spoke: “He asked me if I was going home, I said yes, I was finishing work.
He said, 'OK, Daddy, I left you food there.
You just arrive, warm up and eat.
I am here at Plaza Fiesta with a girl, who is making her a career.
We finish with her and I'm going home.
See you there'".
“We had no more reason for her, we realized that her cell phone was turned off.
I waited a while, until 3:00 am came, "he added.
[A man arrested for "tampering with evidence and robbery" in the case of the Venezuelan taxi driver killed in Georgia]
The GBI indicated that the arrest of the three defendants occurred on Saturday
after an operation coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican authorities
, the country from where they were transferred to the United States.
That Saturday, precisely, relatives and close friends of Delgado said the last goodbye to the Venezuelan and mother of a family, whose crime has caused a commotion among the Latino community of Georgia.
Delgado's remains were cremated and then a mass was celebrated in his honor at the Nuestra Señora de las Américas Catholic Mission, an iconic Hispanic church in the town of Lilburn, Georgia.
After the religious service, Delgado's husband said that the state authorities had not given him any information about the crime and that he has learned of the few details that have come to light through the media.
"They don't want to tell me anything
," Castro said, while holding the urn with his wife's ashes.
Delgado was last seen on April 16 at a Latino shopping center in the town of Chamblee, northeast of Atlanta, where surveillance cameras from a store captured her along with another unidentified woman, who authorities are looking for because she was one of the last people who was with her before disappearing.
“The GBI and the Gilmer County Sheriff's Office
continue to actively investigate and search for the individuals involved in the murder of Rossana Delgado.
A coordinated effort to locate and arrest the other two murder suspects, Juan Ayala-Rodríguez and Mario Alberto Barbosa-Juárez, is active and ongoing, ”says a GBI statement.
With information from EFE and the GBI
