Police in Pueblo, Colorado, arrested a man for allegedly putting a woman’s body into a dumpster.
The victim has not yet been identified. But, police have two suspects in custody. Surveillance video shows a man putting the suitcase with the woman’s body inside it into a dumpster.
Anthony Cuevas was charged with first degree murder and a parole warrant.
Melanie Ann Cuevas was arrested for criminal impersonation.
The incident is being investigated as a homicide.
No cause of death was released.
‘House of Horrors’ Mother Admits to Pouring Boiling Water on Child: Reports
A New Jersey mother of four admitted to pouring boiling water on a 3-year-old boy who was living in a “house of horrors,” prosecutors said.
Patricia Buchan, 29, of Newark, stated that she poured scalding water on the boy after heating it on the stove, officials said on Oct. 19. The child suffered second-degree burns, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office told NJ Advance Media.
The report, citing Newark police, said the boy was treated at the hospital, released, and is now in protective custody.
Buchan confessed to pouring the pot of water on the boy, who is not her son, as a form of punishment. This occurred at a home that Buchan shared with several other people, reported the New York Daily News.
The incident took place last December when she was one of six residents in the apartment who abused the child, officials have alleged.“This child lived his first three years in a house of horrors,” Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Michael Morris told the NY Daily News. “Today’s plea resolves the case without the ordeal of the children having to testify.”
Buchan faces up to five years in a New Jersey prison, the Daily News noted.
Mary Buchan, Bridget Buchan, Patricia Gamarra, Homer Searcy, and the boy’s mother Natacha Smith, were also arrested in the case. They are accused of abusing the boy in a type of “systematic and coordinated” corporal punishment, investigators said.
As of Friday, the five have been indicted but their cases are pending, Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Spokeswoman Katherine Carte told NJ Advance.
Newark school officials had alerted police to the abuse.
Meanwhile, the unnamed boy was among six children living in the apartment, including four of Patricia Buchan’s children. The five other children who were living in the home were also removed, prosecutors said.
Buchan is slated to appear in court for sentencing in December, ABC7 reported.
Last year, the Daily News reported that Smith and Searcy were in a relationship and moved to an apartment shared by sisters Patricia Gamarra and Mary Buchan. Patricia Buchan and Bridget Buchan, Mary’s daughters, also lived there.
Epoch Times Reporter Jack Phillips contributed to this report.
