Ex-boyfriend of the woman whose body was bound in a suitcase is arrested | Daily Mail Online
Police have arrested the ex-boyfriend of the 24-year-old woman whose murdered body was found stuffed in a suitcase on the side of a quiet Connecticut road, with her hands and feet bound.
Cops arrested Javier de Silva, of Queens, on Tuesday, a week after the grisly murder of Valerie Reyes, 24.
On Tuesday Greenwich Police Capt. Robert Berry released a statement saying a suspect 'believed to be involved' in her death has been arrested.
The suspect was later identified as de Silva, who Berry said also fraudulently used Reyes' ATM card.
Reyes had reportedly dumped her boyfriend de Silva a week before she went missing.
De Silva is a Venezuelan citizen and is reportedly in the country illegally as he overstayed his visa, according to
CBS.
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The arrest followed the police investigation of multiple crime scenes, reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, and interviews multiple potential witnesses, the Greenwich Police Department said in a press release on Tuesday.
'New Rochelle Police Detectives accompanied by Greenwich Police Detectives, arrested a suspect in New York who had fraudulently used the ATM card of homicide victim Valerie Reyes.
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