2 men wanted in 2022 slaying arrested following FBI raid on near North Side

SAN ANTONIO – Two men wanted in reference to the slaying of a person in 2022 had been arrested Wednesday following a raid through the FBI and the San Antonio Police Department at a North Side house that startled citizens.

Esteban Xavier Flores, 23, and Paul Anthony Chacon, 29, are charged with homicide in the loss of life of Joe Anthony Guerra, 30, in step with arrest warrant affidavits.

People who reside in the 2400 block of Basse Road aroused from sleep round 6:30 a.m. Wednesday to the attractions of a big, inexperienced military-style helicopter in the sky, FBI SWAT brokers dressed in fatigues and sporting lengthy weapons, and a couple of legislation enforcement businesses surrounding a house.

“Come out with your hands up,” stated a voice that looked as if it would come from a legislation enforcement officer on the scene.

According to the affidavits, Guerra’s badly decomposed frame was once found out in a ditch on April 22. 2022. His frame was once known via his fingerprints. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office may just now not decide the purpose or way of loss of life.

Five days earlier than the invention, Guerra went to Flores’ house to promote him Xanax, the affidavits stated. A witness went with Guerra to the house however left with out him. When the witness returned to the house hours later, Guerra wasn’t there.

Flores was once arrested on an unrelated case in June 2022. The suspect had a mobile phone that contained a video from April 22 of him, Chacon and any other suspect assaulting Guerra at Flores’ house, the affidavits stated.

Chacon and the opposite suspect then held down the sufferer when Flores were given a fabric merchandise, held it over his head and poured water over his face in a “waterboarding” style, the affidavits stated.

The mobile phone video additionally printed via locational information that Flores was once a block clear of the trench the place Guerra’s frame was once dumped.

Flores and Chacon are being held in the Bexar County Jail on a $250,000 bond.