Miami-Dade police officers announced that 20-year-old Francisco Granados was detained on Thursday, Sept 19, as a suspect on the murder of a Homestead woman whose body was found Saturday, Sept 21, at a construction site.
According to first reports shared by newspaper El Nuevo Herald, Mr Granados, also a resident of Homestead, confessed to strangling Tiffany Cabreja, the 18-year-old woman found dead Saturday.
According to the man's first statements, Friday, Sept 20, Mr Granados and another person, whose identity was not revealed, picked up Ms Cabreja at night and headed for a recreational park where they consumed crack. They then went to the construction site and he strangled her from behind, while the other man beat her.
"Mr. Granados advised that he was under the influence of crack cocaine at the time he attacked the victim and was unaware if he killed her," wrote one of the officers that detained him in a press release by the Miami Police Department, informed The Huffington Post.
The same source informed that the woman's body was found on Saturday with a rubber band strongly attached around her neck and a plastic bag over her head.
In the early morning of Wednesday, Sept 25, Miami-Dade police officers freed Miguel Infante and his girlfriend Raquel Delgado after interrogating them regarding Ms Cabreja's death.
"Yesterday we had clues that led us to this individual. He attempted to escape from us and we apprehended him. We never said he was responsible for the crime. However, we don't dismiss him as a suspect. We're not dismissing anyone yet. There is a possibility that there are other suspects out there," said Roy Rutland, spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police, according to El Nuevo Herald.
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