An illegal immigrant arrested on suspicion of killing a Georgia nursing student crossed the Texas border on September 8 last year and was sent to a processing facility in Texas, but was soon released and booked for New York City. He was put on a bus, then arrested and released again, his wife told the Post.
Jose Antonio Ibarra and his wife, Rayling Franco, from Venezuela, said they moved to El Paso with their 5-year-old son.
The family was then sent to the Big Apple on September 15, and Ybarra posted photos of herself smiling and carefree on social media in Times Square and Rockefeller Center.
Ybarra, 26, who worked at DoorDash, Uber Eats and local restaurants, was arrested in Queens on a gasoline moped with Franco’s son and nothing in the back and was arrested in child welfare in August. He was arrested on suspicion of endangering the According to police sources, she did not protect or restrain the child’s head.
The case was later sealed.
By November, the couple had separated. Jose then went to Georgia, where he lived with his younger brother Diego, who used to work at the University of Georgia, according to social media reports.
The body of Laken Riley, a former Augusta University student who attended UGA, was found Thursday in a wooded area on the UGA campus after going for a run.
Ybarra was arrested Friday and charged with other charges of malice and felonious assault, murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, concealment of death and murder. With the death of a 22-year-old.
Southern police called the incident a “crime of opportunity.”
“Yesterday, [Jose] Franco, 23, told the Post, adding that he now sees news of crime “everywhere.”
Relatives of the 32-year-old said he was originally from his home state of Miranda and had temporarily returned to New York in December to attend immigration court.
“Yesterday, when we found out what happened and what happened with Jose, it got really bad because it seemed like that girl was really ahead of things,” a relative said of the victim.
He was a gentle man, Franco claimed.
“The reason we got married was to participate in the asylum case,” she told the Post. “He was someone I knew I could identify with. We’ve known each other all our lives.
“He wasn’t aggressive. There was nothing like that,” she said. “We had problems as a couple, but the problems weren’t physical. We didn’t pull punches, but we spoke up.
He left New York “because he wanted a better job in Georgia.”
She said she stayed at the El Paso facility for five days before heading to New York with her son.
“I’d like to talk to you. [Jose],” she said. “I strongly believe that this wasn’t him and there was a misunderstanding somewhere. But if that’s the case, he has to pay for what he did. No, really.”
Ybarra’s brother, who was arrested for drunk driving in Georgia in September, was arrested this week for allegedly presenting a false green card when police interrogated suspects in Riley’s death, according to federal prosecutors in the Peach State. It was done.
Two weeks ago, he used his illegal green card to secure a temporary job as a dishwasher at the University of Georgia, the school told the Post in a statement.
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The school said Diego Ibarra failed to provide further documentation and was subsequently fired.
The brothers appear to be prolific on TikTok and Facebook, having multiple accounts, some under different names.
Ybarra appears to have shared photos of himself with several other people, including a romantic post with an unidentified woman. His last TikTok post was a selfie video with no sound, just two days before his arrest and one day before Riley disappeared during a morning jog.
“Murderous parasite,” one person wrote before accounts began to be deleted on Saturday. Another commenter bellowed: “You deserve the death penalty.”
Additional reporting by Olivia Land and Alyssa Guzman
