SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Seminole County Sheriff’s Office deputies revealed new information Monday in last week’s case that involved a dead body in a burned car after an apparent kidnapping.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said Monday at a press conference that deputies found the 2002 green Acura involved in the carjacking and kidnapping of 31-year-old Katherine Aguasvias Saturday.
The car was towed from an Orange County apartment complex on March 19 after it was parked illegally. It was later determined that the driver who towed the Acura was murdered a day before the carjacking on April 10, authorities said.
A car matching the description of the green Acura was found at the scene of the murder as well as a 10mm round among 100 rounds fired in the area.
The original purchase of the Acura traces back to a family in Winter Springs who sold it in December, deputies said.
From there, it was purchased by a “buy here pay here” owner who sold it from a lot in Seminole County. The car went unregistered and without a license plate since the person who purchased it never went back to finish the paperwork for the car, Lemma explained.
The Acura is the only one of its kind in Florida.
Lemma also said an Orange County deputy was arrested and charged with several felonies after he relayed sensitive information about the murder/kidnapping case to Aguasvias’ husband who was on his way to Seminole County to cooperate with deputies.
Aguasvias’ husband contacted the Orange County deputy’s wife through his brother who claimed he knew the woman since he was a child.
That’s when the deputy contacted a Seminole County detective working the case and allegedly received the sensitive information. He also is accused of recording the whole exchange and searching for additional information through a police database illegally.
The deputy was charged with five felonies including unlawfully accessing a police database, Lemma said.
Orange County deputies are leading the investigation into everything that happened in Orange County while Seminole County deputies investigate the murder/kidnapping.
Authorities have yet to find the people involved in either murder investigation, Lemma said.