New details come to light about the death of the Venezuelan taxi driver Rossana Delgado, whose body was found a couple of months ago in Georgia, four days after she disappeared.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) explained that the body of the 37-year-old taxi driver was
dismembered and burned when it was found in April
in a cabin in the mountains of the north of the state, sources close to the case reported Wednesday.
New details of Delgado's crime emerged in Gilmer County court, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Atlanta, where several of the suspects, including
30-year-old Megan Colone,
appeared at a hearing to determine if bail was posted.
[Three suspects are arrested in Mexico for the death of a Venezuelan taxi driver in Georgia]
Colone's defense, who
faces murder charges
for the Venezuelan's death, argued that their client is not in a mental condition to face a trial and requested an extension to undergo a psychological evaluation.
Delgado mysteriously disappeared on April 16 while doing a service in his vehicle in the town of Chamblee, in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and four days later his body was found in a cabin in the mountainous town of Cherry Log, about 100 miles (161 km) from where she lived with her
husband and two children.
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Until now, no further details of the case were known and the authorities have not revealed the causes of death of this Venezuelan mother, whose crime caused a commotion in the Hispanic community of Atlanta.
Of the six suspects facing murder charges in the death of the Venezuelan, three of them,
Óscar Manuel García, 26, Juan Antonio Vega, 25, and Colone,
were arrested in mid-May in Mexico after a coordinated operation. with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexican authorities.
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On May 26, the GBI issued an arrest warrant for
Carolina Jazmín Rodríguez Ramírez, 28, a
resident of Oklahoma, whom it identified as another suspect in the crime, and who is believed to be in Mexico along with
Mario Alberto Barbosa Juárez,
another of those accused of the murder.
A
Eva Galicia Martínez,
another of the alleged involved in the case, for allegedly helping those accused of the crime to flee to Mexico, the court denied bail.
State authorities assure that Martínez is
linked to a Mexican drug cartel.
With information from Efe.
