Man’s body was found stuffed in recycling bin. MDSO makes second arrest
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office made a second arrest in the killing of a Hialeah man whose body was found stuffed in a blue plastic recycling bin in a Redland agricultural area in August.
Alfredo Carballo Gonzalez, 32, was caught by Mexican police and extradited on Wednesday to South Florida, where Miami-Dade homicide detectives arrested him on a second-degree murder charge, according to the sheriff’s office.
His girlfriend, Ariely Alvarez-Cabrera, 32, who detectives say helped Carballo Gonzalez get rid of evidence linking him to the murder, was also caught in Mexico and sent back to South Florida in September to face charges of accessory after the fact and evidence tampering.
Detectives say Carballo Gonzalez killed 37-year-old Daylon Fleitas Gonzalez in a Medley truck yard on Aug. 3. Fleitas Gonzalez’s body was found inside a blue county-issued recycling bin on Aug. 9 in the woods off Southwest 203rd Avenue in Redland, according to Alvarez-Cabrera’s arrest report.
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Fleitas Gonzalez’s decomposing body had knife wounds to the face, neck and back, according to the report.
Alvarez-Cabrera’s attorney, Bijan Sebastian Parwaresch, told the Miami Herald that he “feels even stronger now” having looked at the evidence and discovery that his client’s case “is very defensible,” as is the case against Carballo Gonzalez.
Parwaresch, who is a former prosecutor, said there is no clear evidence how Fleitas Gonzalez was killed and whether it was a murder or self-defense.
“His case is clearly defensible,” Parwaresch said, noting he is not Carballo Gonzalez’s attorney. Court records show Carballo Gonzalez does not have an attorney as of Thursday.
Meeting over money
Fleitas Gonzalez’s girlfriend reported him missing to Hialeah police on Aug. 4. She hadn’t seen him since the day before when he left their home to meet Carballo Gonzalez in Medley around 1 p.m., detectives said.
Carballo Gonzalez told Fleitas Gonzalez that he was going to pay him the $10,000 that he owed him, according to the report.
Fleitas Gonzalez told his girlfriend he would be back in about an hour, but when he still wasn’t home at 3 p.m., she called his cellphone, which was turned off, according to the affidavit.
The girlfriend told detectives that him turning off his phone was unusual. She told police that she called Carballo Gonzalez the next day, and he told her Fleitas Gonzalez never showed up, detectives say.
She received a text from a number that she didn’t recognize on Aug. 5, she told detectives. The person messaging her said he was Fleitas Gonzalez, had been stopped by police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and was fleeing to Mexico, according to the affidavit.
She responded by asking him several personal questions to verify it was him, and the person on the other end deflected answering, detectives say.
Hialeah police obtained SunPass records from Fleitas Gonzalez’s Ford F250 pickup truck. They showed the last toll he passed was on Aug. 3 around 6:15 p.m. near the Kendall Drive exit on Florida’s Turnpike, according to the affidavit.
Detectives looking at toll-camera footage saw the recycling bin in the bed of the truck, and the driver seen in the footage did not match Fleitas Gonzalez’s description, detectives say.
Hialeah police then turned the investigation over to Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detectives. They obtained cellphone records that showed Fleitas Gonzalez and Carballo Gonzalez were in Medley earlier that day, according to the report.
Blood-stained pickup
On Aug. 8, a day before Fleitas Gonzalez’s body was found, a sheriff’s office helicopter crew spotted the pickup less than a mile away abandoned in tall sawgrass in a field near Southwest 227th Avenue and 260th Street, detectives say.
Investigators found blood stains on the front driver’s seat, as well as on the interior of the front driver’s side door, the affidavit states.
Near the truck, they found a backpack containing blood-soaked clothing and shoes. Investigators then obtained security-camera footage that was from the Medley truck yard at 9501 NW 106th St. and showed Carballo Gonzalez arrived there in a Tesla sedan at 11 a.m. the day of the murder.
At 1:30 p.m., Fleitas Gonzalez arrived in his pickup, detectives say. About an hour later, Fleitas Gonzalez is seen getting into the front seat of the pickup and Carballo Gonzalez in the backseat behind him, the report states.
Moments later, the front door is seen opening “abruptly and forcefully,” and Carballo Gonzalez gets out of the truck through the driver’s side, detectives wrote in their report. The affidavit also states that Carballo is seen dragging Fleitas Gonzalez’s “lifeless and incapacitated” body outside the truck before putting it back inside after moving the vehicle to a parking space.
Carballo Gonzalez then parked his Tesla in front of the Ford to block views of passersby, according to the report.
At 3:40 p.m., the truck-yard camera footage showed a red Mitsubishi SUV arrive. Alvarez-Cabrera gets out of the vehicle and greets Carballo Gonzalez, detectives say. They both got into the Mitsubishi and left the property before returning five minutes later, according to the report.
Detectives say the footage showed Carballo Gonzalez handling something in the back of the truck before getting inside and pulling out of the parking space. At this point, the recycling bin was in the bed of the truck, detectives say.
The footage shows Alvarez-Cabrera cleaning the inside of Fleitas Gonzalez’s truck, according to the report. Around 5:30 p.m., Carballo Gonzalez drove off in the pickup with Alvarez-Cabrera following in the Mitsubishi, the report states.
She returned to Medley at 9 p.m. to drop off Carballo Gonzalez, who picked up his Tesla, detectives say. Detectives also said they viewed security-camera footage that was from a house near Southwest 227th Avenue and 260th Street and showed the Mitsubishi and Ford driving near where deputies found the pickup abandoned.
Detectives also interviewed Fleitas Gonzalez’s brother, who told them that on Aug. 4, the day after the murder, Carballo Gonzalez called him asking where Fleitas Gonzalez was, saying he was supposed to meet him and give him money, according to the affidavit.
Fleitas Gonzalez’s brother asked him how much he owed his brother, and he told him $2,500, according to the report. His brother told him to pay it to him through a cash app, and he would make sure Fleitas Gonzalez got it.
Carballo Gonzalez did on Aug. 7, and the brother showed detectives the receipt for the transaction, the affidavit states.
Escape to Mexico
Investigators say Alvarez-Cabrera and Carballo Gonzalez fled to Mexico with their 5-month-old baby boy after Fleitas Gonzalez was killed. Alvarez-Cabrera was captured in Mexico in September and extradited to South Florida. She has since been released on bond, her attorney said.
The baby was also found alive and healthy, according to the sheriff’s office.
As of Thursday, Carballo Gonzalez was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on the second-degree murder charge and a $50,000 bond on one count of evidence tampering.
