Police say the persons of interest in the case are Eduardo Nasario Delacruz, 30, and Raymond Cordova, 47.
Both Delacruz and Cordova are in custody on unrelated charges.
Two Persons of Interest in Custody!
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De La Cruz was the alleged ringleader in a drug trafficking organization that supplied 'large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and prescription narcotics'.
He was named as a person of interest in the Myers case following a wiretap investigation.
Raymond Cordova, 47, an associate of De La Cruz, picked Myers up from her father's house, the affidavit stated...
The informant told investigators that he got into a car with Cordova and the suitcase.
He said there was a 'foul odor coming from within'.
They then drove to Cactus Park - a hotspot for four-wheel truck drivers performing stunts - where they disposed of the suitcase, the affidavit states.
On February 23, detectives met with the head housekeeper of the Country Inn & Suites.
so sad....have those two been charged in her murder?
Officials said the death of an 18-year-old Colorado woman whose body was found in a suitcase was drug-related.
The Mesa County Coroner’s Office said Kelly Mae Myers, who went missing in December of 2014, died of “mixed drug intoxication” but her manner of death remains undetermined.
Officials said they will not be releasing any more information at this time because the investigation is ongoing.
The West Valley City Police Department is overseeing the investigation because officials said Myers died in a West Valley City motel room.
Police have two persons of interest in the suspicious death of 18-year-old Kelly Mae Myers.
Eduardo Nasario De La Cruz, 30, and Raymond Cordova, 47, were taken into custody in Colorado on unrelated charges.
According to the search warrant, Myers’ body was stuffed in a suitcase and taken from West Valley City to Colorado, where both men left her at a park, 22 miles south of Grand Junction.
The documents state an informant told police about the location.
SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah (ABC 4 Utah) - Local authorities have filed charges against two people allegedly responsible for cutting up the body of an 18 year-old woman and transporting it to Colorado in a suitcase.
Raymond Cordova (48), of Colorado, and Eduardo Delacruz (31) of Utah, both face felony charges for their alleged roles in destroying the body of Kelly Mae Myers after an apparent drug overdose.
Eduardo Nasario Delacruz, 32, of West Valley City, was charged in 3rd District Court along with 50-year-old Raymond Cordova, 48, of Grand Junction, Colo. with one count each of second-degree felony desecration of a human body and third-degree felony obstructing justice.
On Thursday, Delacruz pleaded guilty to the obstructing justice count, admitting he provided false information regarding the investigation, and the other charge was dismissed.
Judge Mark Kouris immediately sentenced Delacruz to prison for up to five years.
Raymond Cordova, 50, pleaded guilty to desecration of a dead human body, reduced from a second-degree felony to a third-degree felony, and obstructing justice, a third-degree felony.
Prosecutors have agreed to recommend that he be sentenced to two prison terms of up to five years and that they run concurrently. However, it will be up to the judge to determine the final sentence and whether he serves time after a lengthy sentence Cordova faces in Colorado. Sentencing is set for Aug. 14.
Cordova has been ordered to serve 60 years in prison for charges of conspiracy to distribute more than 112 grams of methamphetamine, and possession with intent to distribute more than seven grams of meth
A Colorado man has been sentenced to prison for up to five years for disposing of the body of a woman after she died of a drug overdose at a Utah motel.
Raymond Cordova, 50, of Grand Junction, Colo., had pleaded guilty in 3rd District Court to third-degree felony counts of desecration of a human body and obstructing justice in connection with the 2014 death of 18-year-old Kelly Mae Myers, also of Grand Junction.
On Monday, Judge Elizabeth Hruby-Mills ordered the two prison terms to run concurrently to each other, but consecutively to a sentence Cordova is presently serving at a Colorado prison.