Judge Says Felix Verdejo Faces Death Penalty, Victim’s Father Says 100 Year Sentence & Bail Denied!

Choose Says Verdejo Faces Dying Penalty, Sufferer’s Father Says 100 12 months Sentence

By Robert Brizel, Head Actual Fight Media Boxing Correspondent

San Juan, PR (Might sixth, 2021)– Puerto Rican light-weight veteran contender Felix Verdejo is reportedly being held on the Guaynabo Metropolitan Detention Heart in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with out bail. Throughout a digital listening to (there isn’t any courtroom at current as a result of COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic on the island). Verdejo was charged with the kidnapping and carjacking which resulted within the dying of Keishla Rodríguez, and with deliberately killing an unborn little one which could possibly be his. It has been revealed Verdejo didn’t make any feedback throughout the digital listening to on Monday, Might 3, 2021, by which he relied on a translator.

Presiding choose Camille Velez said “This can be a dying penalty-eligible case.” Nonetheless, the sufferer’s father, Jose Rodriguez, said to tv community TeleOnce “I don’t imagine in that as a result of for those who give the dying penalty to an individual who did what he did, you’re serving to him. It’s higher to throw 100 years (sentence) on him, and for him to maintain that burden of conscience (of his guilt) on his thoughts every single day (he’ll nonetheless reside).”

A felony grievance filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation accuses Verdejo of punching Rodríguez within the face, then injecting her with a syringe full of an unidentified substance purchased at a public housing advanced. The grievance then alleges Verdejo sure her arms and ft with wire and tied a heavy block to her physique, earlier than throwing her off a lagoon bridge at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, April 30, 2021, then shot at her physique beneath within the water with a firearm from the bridge above. Individuals have gathered on the bridge for the reason that incident, demanding justice.

Verdejo went to the house of Rodriguez that Thursday to see the outcomes of a being pregnant check she had knowledgeable him about. Rodríguez was reported lacking later within the day after she didn’t present up for her job at an space animal grooming enterprise. Her stays have been present in a lagoon close to the capital on Saturday, Might 2, 2021. Officers recognized her on Sunday, Might 3, 2021, through current dental data.

Verdejo, 27-2, 17 knockouts, San Juan, Puerto Rico, a winner of seven consecutive World Boxing Group Latino Light-weight regional title bouts, represented Puerto Rico on the 2012 Olympics.  Verdejo final appeared within the ring in December 2020, preventing however dropping in one other WBO regional title bout in Las Vegas. The FBI grievance says an unidentified witness helped Verdejo kidnap Rodríguez and with the ensuing occasions. The US authorities has 30 days to current the case to a Federal grand jury.

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