SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A person of interest in a brazen carjacking earlier this month near Winter Springs has been arrested, according to jail records.
Records show Giovany Crespo Hernandez, 27, was arrested Monday on drug charges. The Seminole County sheriff identified him last Friday as a person of interest in the carjacking of 31-year-old Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas.
The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said Aguasvivas, of Homestead, was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of East Lake Drive and Tuskawilla Road in her Dodge Durango when a masked man carrying a 10mm automatic handgun got out of a green Acura and entered her SUV, apparently forcing her to drive off at gunpoint.
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Less than two hours later, a vehicle similar to the Durango was found ablaze in Osceola County after witnesses reported hearing gunshots at a construction site near Boggy Creek Road, the sheriff said, adding that the vehicle was damaged so badly that it could not be identified. A body believed to be Aguasvivas was found in the vehicle, officials said.
Aguasvivas appeared to be targeted, though the motive is still unclear, officials said.
Sheriff Dennis Lemma said detectives believe Crespo Hernandez was the last person to speak with Aguasvivas. The sheriff said the victim’s brother called the last number used on Aguasvivas’ phone and took a screenshot of the video call, and it was later determined that the person on the call was Hernandez.
The brother also told detectives that Crespo Hernandez told him that Aguasvivas had been in town to deliver “money and other things to a friend.”
Another person of interest, Jordanish Torres-Garcia, is facing federal gun charges in an unrelated case. The sheriff said detectives were able to link him as the person who bought the green Acura that was involved in the carjacking.
Crespo-Hernandez’s girlfriend, Monicsabel Romero-Soto, was arrested last week when deputies executed a search warrant on the couple’s home.
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