Post by Scumhunter on Jan 19, 2020 5:10:14 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: abqjournal.com)
From The Albuquerque Journal (abqjournal.com):
He was hired to do yardwork at a woman's West Side home in the summer of 2018. But several months later, Francisco Beltran disappeared along with two guns she kept under her bed, according to a court document.
Authorities are now searching for the 35-year-old, a year after he allegedly used one of those guns to shoot up a car – hitting a woman in the face and killing her – in a Southwest Albuquerque neighborhood.
On Friday, he was added to the Metro 15 – a list of most wanted offenders put out by the Albuquerque Police Department.
Beltran is now charged with first-degree murder in the death of 52-year-old Charlott Cordova. He is also charged with two counts of larceny of a firearm.
A warrant was issued for Beltran's arrest in September.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in Metropolitan Court:
Deputies responded to the shooting around 10:30 p.m. Sept. 25, 2018, outside a Circle K convenience store near Coors and Gun Club. They found Cordova dead beside a car with its passenger window shattered.
The man with her told deputies the two were sitting in his car near a ditch bank by Cordova's home when he heard fireworks and “dirt splashing” against the car. The glass window shattered next and he heard a man say “get the (expletive) out of here” from the dark.
The man drove to the Circle K and called 911, but Cordova was already unresponsive. Detectives found numerous shell casings and a gun in an open field beside the ditch bank.
As investigators were processing the scene, 911 calls started pouring in of gunfire less than a mile away. Responding deputies found Beltran “heavily intoxicated” with three guns on him and arrested him for negligent use of a deadly weapon.
Beltran told deputies he was shooting “swamp rats in the ditch bank” and was taken to a hospital for a sizable cut to his hand. At the hospital, Beltran told deputies he mixed liquor with pills and “barely remembered the night prior and blacked out most of the night.”
Deputies say Beltran told them he had a memory of a confrontation with two “tweakers” near the ditch and fired “either into the air or into the ditch bank” to scare them off.
“Due to his intoxication, he could not recall … more details about the altercation,” a deputy wrote. He was subsequently released from custody.
Detectives say the bullet lodged in the vehicle Cordova was riding in was later matched to one of the three guns – a 9mm Ruger – Beltran had on him. A few months later, a woman in the neighborhood reported a “delayed larceny of a firearm.”
The woman told deputies two of her guns – including the 9mm Ruger – were stolen and “believed a transient she hired to clean her yard may have taken them.” Deputies say the woman hired Beltran in the summer of 2018 but he stopped showing up in September, not even coming to collect money she owed him. The woman told deputies the guns had been under her bed and went missing along with Beltran.
www.abqjournal.com/1410878/man-charged-in-2018-homicide.html
Additional article: www.krqe.com/news/crime/police-add-deadly-shooting-suspect-to-metro-15-most-wanted-list/
Thoughts? As of this posting date (1/19/2020), Beltran still shows as having a warrant in Bernalillo County's online public search engine, and just for future reference his date of birth is 11/14/1984: app.bernco.gov/warrants/Warrant.aspx
I am a bit confused as to whether Beltran was believed to have deliberately allegedly shot Cordova because he was having delusions of her and her male friend as "tweakers" (they weren't and were simply innocent victims sitting in a car) or if it was a stray bullet from negligently firing gunshots at real or imagined "tweakers" or if that tweaker argument was a separate incident, but he is still responsible for Cordova's death either way if those shots came from his gun. Also, an article states (second one I linked to) he was arrested a year earlier for negligently firing guns! You'd think this guy would have learned his lesson the first time!
Anyway, it is important we get this allegedly dangerous idiot off the street. Charlott Cordova's life mattered and is no less important than anyone else's, but I fear a child being his next victim if he continues his alleged reckless activities.
Admin Note #1: According to online local media, anyone having information on this fugitive's whereabouts is asked to call Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers: www.crimestoppersnm.com/
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