The second person who was possibly involved in a deadly car theft earlier this month has been taken into custody for drug offenses.
Giovany Crespo Hernandez got arrested on Monday, according to jail records.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma stated last week that investigators think Hernandez was the final person to communicate with Katherine Aguasvivas before she was forcefully robbed and killed on April 11, as reported by CrimeOnline.
Lemma revealed that police were searching for Hernandez on the same day he announced the capture of Jordanish Torres-Garcia over an outstanding federal gun warrant. Torres-Garcia is also a person of interest, according to Lemma, and investigators suspect he is the individual seen in a witness's video exiting a green Acura that crashed into Aguasvivas’s car and then entering the back seat of her Dodge Durango.
Two hours later, the Durango was found on fire with Aguasvivas fatally shot inside.
Lemma declined to disclose if investigators believe Hernandez was the driver of the Acura engaged in the car theft.
Investigators were tipped off about Hernandez by Aguasvivas’s brother, who was conducting an independent inquiry into the car theft. He accessed Aguasvivas’s iCloud account and discovered that she had talked to Hernandez via Facetime while she was driving from her residence in south Florida to Seminole County. The brother, without contacting law enforcement, phoned Hernandez, who informed him that Aguasvivas was traveling to the area “to deliver money and other stuff for a friend,” Lemma said.
Seminole County detectives later got in touch with the brother and obtained the information. They matched a screenshot of the brother’s Facetime conversation with a 2019 mugshot of Hernandez and began searching for him. However, by the time they reached his home last week, he had vanished.
Police have connected the green Acura, which was later found abandoned in Orlando, to Torres-Garcia and to the killing of a tow-truck driver in Orange County the day before Aguasvivas’s murder.
Neither Hernandez nor Torres-Garcia have been charged in connection with the carjacking or either murder involving the Acura. Lemma mentioned that investigators are still awaiting phone, computer, and other records to build their case.
[Featured image: Katherine Aguasvivas and Giovany Crespo Hernandez/Seminole County Sheriff’s Office]