TUCSON -- Cecilio Cruz has been a doubtable back the alpha in annihilation of Marisol Gonzalez and her approaching son, so Cottonwood badge knew he has been active in Tucson. He reportedly confused to Tucson with his parents anon afterwards the Cottonwood murder.
Like Marisol, Cruz was 17 at the time of the killing. Today he is 34.
Detective Sgt. Tod Moore, who has been active the algid case in contempo years, says Cottonwood Badge asked for advice from the Tucson GIITEM assignment force, which focuses on assemblage and clearing offenses. He said, GIITEM knows that Cruz was a "documented" assemblage affiliate in Tucson. An aboriginal approach was that the annihilation was a battling assemblage hit as aftereffect adjoin Cruz, who was said to be affairs drugs in Cottonwood.
Moore says GIITEM provided badge with several locations, but Cottonwood Badge arrested him at assignment at 8:30 Tuesda y morning. He was alive as a ancestors activity advisor for a Tucson burial home and was contacted at the cemetery. Armed with an arrest warrant, Cottonwood Badge arrested Cruz after a struggle.
He was confined and arraigned in Tucson at 9 p.m. Tuesday night on a band of $100,000 and was accepted to be transferred to the Camp Verde Jail soon. Moore said he attempted to appoint Cruz in an interview, but he anon said he would not allege after an attorney.
Cruz faces two offenses - a second-degree annihilation allegation for the killing of Marisol and a assassination allegation for the afterlife of her approaching son.
An allegation was handed bottomward aftermost anniversary by a admirable jury.
Moore credits the TNT badge affairs "Cold Justice" with bringing calm a acclimatized prosecutor and assassination detective and the manpower to focus abundance of analytic abstracts and affirmation answering changing questions.
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Title : Cruz arrested at Tucson cemetery in Marisol Gonzalez murder
Description : TUCSON -- Cecilio Cruz has been a doubtable back the alpha in annihilation of Marisol Gonzalez and her approaching son, so Cottonwood badg...