Murder suspects arrested in SoCal after body encased in concrete found in upscale Hawaii home

Police, investigating a lacking individual’s case, entered a Hawaii Loa Ridge dwelling Tuesday the place they encountered a robust scent of espresso coming from a tub. The bathtub was full of concrete and coated with espresso grounds, Hawaii Information Now reported.

“The physique was within the standalone tub and it was in a state of decomposition as soon as we chipped away on the concrete combination,” stated Lt. Deena Thoemmes.

The espresso scent was later overpowered by the decomposing physique, she stated.

Police had been on the dwelling the day earlier than in response to a lacking individual’s report, she stated.

Police questioned a 23-year-old man who claimed to dwell there. He and a 34-year-old man with him had been allowed to go away after figuring out there have been no indicators of foul play outdoors the house.
Police later discovered the 23-year-old man had been in an intimate relationship with the sufferer, believed to be the 73-year-old proprietor of the house.

The 23-year-old man and the 34-year-old man had been final seen in Waikiki Tuesday, Thoemmes stated.

“The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Activity Pressure, which incorporates Honolulu Police Officers, U.S. Marshals and different federal brokers, by sources of knowledge tracked the suspects and decided that they had fled Oahu to Los Angeles,” a information launch stated.

Juan Tejedor Baron and Scott Hannon had been later positioned and arrested in Southern California, in line with the Honolulu Police Division.

Baron, 23, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals and Los Angeles police detectives on a Greyhound bus in Anaheim that was headed for Mexico. He was discovered “hiding in a crawl house beneath an enclosed bench on the rear of the bus. Baron had pulled again a metallic plate close to the bus’s rear toilet and crawled beneath the enclosed bench seat,” the assertion stated.

Hannon, 34, was apprehended by U.S. Marshals and the LAPD close to the intersection West Manchester Boulevard and South Oak Road in Inglewood, authorities stated.
Each suspects had been booked into the Los Angeles Police Division’s Metropolitan Detention Heart. Formal fees had been pending Wednesday.

The Related Press contributed to this report.