A federal judge in Florida ruled on Monday there is “sufficient proof” to keep a 36-year-old guy– charged with kidnapping and perhaps eliminating his partner in Spain– behind bars.
David Knezevich pleaded innocent to the criminal activity in June after he was jailed when he went back to Florida from his native Serbia– where he tackled a week before Ana Maria Knezevich Henao’s disappearance from Madrid.
“Indeed, the proof produced at the 2nd hearing supports the Court’s initial finding that [Knezevich] provides a severe threat of flight provided the shrewd level of deceptiveness that he has actually shown as part of the criminal activity he is declared to have actually participated in,” Judge Edwin Torres composed in a 17-page court file, the Miami Herald reported.
Henao was last seen on February 2 at around 10 p.m. after momentarily transferring to Spain, as she looked for an end to her 13-year marital relationship. Her disappearance accompanied the sighting of an unknown individual vandalizing security electronic cameras on the very same night, as CrimeOnline reported.
Previously, Assistant United States Attorney Lacee Monk informed the court that David Knezevich and his better half, Ana Maria Knezevich Henao, had actually been going through a nasty divorce after 13 years of marital relationship, WTVJ reported.
While Knezevich’s defense has actually stated that he remained in his native Serbia at the time of his other half’s disappearance, Monk informed the court that security video reveals Knezevich purchasing duct tape and spray paint at a Madrid hardward shop on February 2– the exact same day Henao vanished.
She discussed that the accused flew from Miami to Turkey almost a week before his spouse vanished and after that took a trip 600 miles to Serbia, where he leased a Peugeot.
Later February, a male in a motorbike helmet utilized the exact same brand name of spray paint purchased the hardware shop on Henao’s security video camera, Monk stated, and Knezevich’s cellular phone linked to Facebook from Madrid. Even more, she stated, the guy in the motorbike helmet looks like the suspect with the very same eyebrows and the exact same approximate height.
Even more, she stated, license plates taken around that time in Madrid were seen on license plate readers near a bike store where a similar helmet was acquired on Henao’s street the night she disappeared. Hours after the male was seen on the security video footage at Henao’s apartment or condo, she stated, a Peugeot similar to one Knezevich had actually leased in Serbia– and bearing the taken license plate– went through a toll cubicle near Madrid.
The chauffeur might not be seen due to the fact that of tented windows.
Even more, Monk stated, on the early morning after his partner’s disappearance, Knezevich texted a Colombian lady he had actually satisfied on a dating app with 2 messages he desired equated into “ideal Colombian” Spanish. She did so, and 2 of his partner’s good friends got those messages shotly later from Henao’s mobile phone. The messages stated she was entrusting to a male she had actually simply satisfied.