LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person accused of murdering Lesly Palacio in 2020, who returned to Las Vegas on Thursday to face a homicide cost, will make his first courtroom look subsequent Wednesday, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
Erick Rangel-Ibarra, 30, is the one suspect in Palacio’s August 2020 homicide. He’s accused of killing Palacio, 22, on Aug. 29, 2020. Police discovered her stays two weeks later close to the Valley of Fireplace.
Authorities in Mexico arrested Rangel-Ibarra final July, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. On Thursday, he returned to Las Vegas after a yr of extradition proceedings.
In 2021, a grand jury indicted Rangel-Ibarra on expenses of homicide and destroying proof. At the moment, authorities suspect he was already in Mexico.
Rangel-Ibarra will formally hear these expenses on Wednesday morning, when he goes earlier than a choose for the primary time. The continuing, referred to as an indictment warrant return, is a formality to carry a defendant earlier than a choose to indicate they’re in custody. It’s unlikely that Rangel-Ibarra would enter a plea at the moment.
Rangel initially informed police he thought Palacio had died from an overdose however then informed police he initially noticed the physique when his son dragged it down the steps of their residence on a mattress sheet, paperwork stated.
In 2021, Jose Rangel, Erick Rangel-Ibarra’s father, pleaded responsible to serving to his son transfer Palacio’s physique from the household residence. A choose sentenced Rangel to 2 years in jail. The 8 Information Now Investigators reported Rangel was launched after serving lower than 9 months.
Video proof offered to a grand jury confirmed Rangel-Ibarra and Rangel shifting Palacio’s physique on the morning of her suspected demise, in response to paperwork obtained first by the 8 Information Now Investigators that yr.
Erick Rangel-Ibarra, 30, is the one suspect in Lesly Palacio’s August 2020 homicide. He’s accused of killing Palacio, 22, on Aug. 29, 2020. Police discovered her stays two weeks later close to the Valley of Fireplace. (Palacio household)
An lawyer for Rangel-Ibarra was not listed within the courtroom file as of Friday. Illustration for Rangel-Ibarra may be decided Wednesday.
Paperwork submitted to the courtroom indicating Rangel-Ibarra was in custody incorrectly names Former Sheriff Joe Lombardo in it. Lombardo was the sheriff on the time of Palacio’s demise and the grand jury proceedings however was elected to the governorship in 2022.
Palacio’s official trigger and method of demise are listed as undetermined. Investigators haven’t elaborated on what proof contained in the Rangel residence led them to find out Palacio is the sufferer of a murder. An undetermined trigger and method of demise means there’s not sufficient proof on a deceased individual’s physique to obviously decide how they died.
