A Colorado state security guard accused of killing a woman whose body was found dead in a creek is suspected of having a severed hand in his pocket when he was arrested, police said.
The Pueblo Police Department announced that Solomon Martinez, 26, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the discovery of a woman's body in Fountain Creek on January 10th. The Pueblo County coroner identified the woman as 47-year-old Renee Marie Portillos. .
According to officials, Martinez was arrested on January 11 at a local security company where he worked after police received a report about a woman's body in the creek and his alleged involvement. Obtain arrest affidavit By the Pueblo Chief.
According to the documents, around 5 a.m. on January 9, Martinez's roommate came across him at a car wash, noticed his clothes were dirty and had blood on his hands, and ran a pressure washer hose over him. He said he washed it off. The roommate told police that Martinez asked him to dig a 10-foot hole.
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Solomon Martinez, 26, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the dismembered body of a woman found in Fountain Creek. (Pueblo Police Department)
The roommate also told police that he asked Martinez for tools, but was not allowed to take them out of Martinez's trunk himself. His affidavit says he claimed he witnessed Martinez struggling with “something large” as he tried to get the tools.
A second witness, a friend of Martinez's roommate who was with the two on Jan. 9, told police that Martinez needed to dig a hole 6 to 10 feet deep, according to the affidavit. He testified that he said this multiple times.
A second witness also said that later that day, alone with Martinez, he allegedly dragged what appeared to be the decapitated body of a woman to a stream.
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Martinez allegedly asked a second witness for help and threatened her with a handgun, but she refused, and later took a video of the body to “cover herself” and showed it to several people, including her roommate and police.
The affidavit also states that a witness said he covered the woman's dismembered body with a blanket because he “didn't know what else to do.”
Renee Marie Portillos, 47, was found dead in Fountain Creek near Mohawk and Montebello roads in Pueblo, Colorado, according to the Pueblo County coroner. (Google Maps)
Police said that when Martinez was arrested, a hand believed to be that of a woman was found inside a plastic bag in the left breast pocket of Martinez's jacket. The affidavit says Martinez had her hands in her jacket and there were obvious blood stains on the car, but the woman's death was blamed on a witness who recorded the video and gave it to police. he claimed.
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According to the affidavit, police interviewed Martinez for nearly three hours and determined he was deceiving her because the information and evidence they said they already had contradicted. That's what it means.
Mr. Martinez was booked into the Pueblo County Jail and is being held on $1 million cash bail.
