A man has been charged with murder after Mirian Garcia, 29, was found dead last week behind the Department of Motor Vehicles in Riverhead allegedly strangled her with a belt after raping her.
Suffolk County homicide detectives arrested Guillermo Alfonso Alvarado-Ajcuc, 21, of Riverhead for the on Wednesday at approximately 6 p.m.
Alvarado-Ajcuc, a Guatamalan resident who is in the United States without a green card, was charged with one count of murder in the second degree and rape in the first degree. He was held overnight before his arraignment at the Riverhead Town Court Thursday morning.
Garcia, of Flanders, was found dead at a Riverhead shopping center on May 7. The Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner determined the woman’s death was a homicide.
Thursday morning, assistant district attorney Glenn Kurtzrock said Alvarado-Ajcuc gave a full confession stating that on the night of May 6, during the course of raping Garcia, he strangled her with a belt.
Alvarado-Ajcuc, wearing a brown shirt and jeans, spoke through an intepreter and told Justice Allen Smith that he lives with his father, a day laborer who works in landscaping, in Riverhead, and has been living in the United States for four years. He is not a United States citizen, he said.
"This is a very serious charge," Smith said.
Due to the nature of the charge, no bail was set and the defendant was remanded to the Suffolk County Correctional facility. He is represented by Riverhead attorney Eileen Powers, who said she will be entering a plea of not guilty and request a jury trial. The case was adjourned until May 22.
The defendant faces 25 years to life on the murder charge, Kurtzrock said. "Obviously, it's a brutal crime," he said. "The Suffolk County Police Department's homicide squad worked very hard and was able to apprehend the defendant."
If you dare do something as STUPID as compare the people who moved here TO BECOME CITIZENS AND BE AMERICANS with criminal illegal aliens like this, you deserve all the undying indignation of those REAL AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS!!!!!!!!
You'd think since there's a (bogus) "War On Terror," they'd be VERY determined to GUARD AND DEFEND OUR BORDERS, wouldn't you? After all, I'd scarcely think the average American can tell a Mexican from, say, an Iranian. Remember that scene in Cheech Marin's movie "Born In East L.A.," where he's handing out bogus green cards to Mexicans who are trying to illegally cross into the United States? He hands one of the fake green cards to a mexican and says, "Here, your name is now (insert Persian-sounding name)." THE ILLEGALS DON'T CARE ABOUT OUR COUNTRY - THEY JUST WANT TO ENRICH THEMSELVES (relative to the poverty-stricken places they come from) AND SEND OUR MONEY OUT OF OUR COUNTRY - AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS OUR SOVEREIGNTY IS EVEN MORE DEPLORABLE!! google "North American Union," "Security and Prosperity (lol) Partnership," "Trans-Texas Corridor," etc. etc.