MIAMI, Fla. – A person who police say was driving the automotive of a useless South Florida Lyft driver was charged with homicide and different counts Tuesday in a separate case.
A grand jury in Hardee County indicted Matthew Flores, 35, on costs of first-degree homicide, grand theft auto, possession of a firearm by a felon and tampering with proof, in accordance to courtroom data.
The indictment relates to the Jan. 24 deadly taking pictures of 43-year-old Jose Carlos Martinez in Wauchula. Police have been actively looking for Flores in that case by Jan. 30, when Lyft driver Gary Levin, 74, went lacking after dropping off a buyer in Okeechobee, a small metropolis north of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee and about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east of Wauchula.
Levin’s crimson 2022 Kia Stinger was noticed in Miami, Okeechobee and Gainesville in north Florida after his disappearance. The automobile was stopped Feb. 2 in North Carolina, the place a U.S. Marshals regional process drive requested authorities to be looking out. Flores, who was driving the automotive, was arrested following a police chase by three counties, officers mentioned. A useless physique discovered in Okeechobee after Levin went lacking was finally recognized because the driver.
Flores was being held in North Carolina on a $2 million bond with a listening to scheduled for Wednesday. He will finally be returned to Florida. It was not identified whether or not Flores had a lawyer who can communicate on his behalf.
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