The Instruction Judge 2 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Eva Esther Juárez, has decided to send three men to prison this Saturday for the murder of Alberto González Padrón, aged 35, presumably due to a beating inflicted earlier in the week in a property in Güímar, Tenerife. The three men, all Spanish, are professional wrestler Moisés Baute, representative of Desokupa in Tenerife; Jonathan Martín, a nightclub doorman; and Aarón Vargas, president of Unión Deportiva Añaza, who was arrested this Friday as the presumed intellectual author of the murder. The first two, presumed material authors, transported the victim’s body in a car to a police station in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where they allegedly surrendered, acknowledging the crime.
According to the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands on Saturday, the judge, who has decreed confidentiality in the proceedings, has ordered preventive imprisonment, communicated without bail for the three detainees, who are being investigated for the crimes of homicide/murder (as the investigation may reveal), aggravated assault, illegal detention, and against moral integrity. The detainees exercised their right not to testify before the police and before the judge.
Two of the detainees, Vargas and Baute, are well-known to the police, either for violent crimes or drug-related offences. Both are from Añaza and have shared past experiences.
The police have been trying to reconstruct the events that occurred in some buildings in the town of Güímar. The fact that the first two detainees collected the body and transported it to the National Police Station in the Tenerife capital hinders the reconstruction of the facts, as the crime scene was altered by the two main suspects.
The first police report details the extraordinary moment when Moisés and Jonathan presented themselves at the station, declaring themselves responsible for the death of a man whose body they had brought there, seated in the back seat of a car. This report could not accurately establish how much time elapsed between the death of the man travelling in that car and the moment he was presented to the officers as a victim.
Although the case has been declared secret by the judge, it is already known that there is a second victim who was assaulted by the first two detainees, Moisés Baute and Jonathan Martín, which supports the theory that the death of Alberto González Padrón may be related to a fight involving several people, in which some participants used more violence than others. That second victim is currently hospitalised, recovering from the effects of the altercation.
For this Saturday, it was anticipated that the three detainees would testify before the investigating judge after having refused to do so before the investigative officers.
In addition to his public activities as a professional kickboxing fighter, Moisés Baute, known as Moi the Ears in some circles, heads a company that, under the name of Desokupa Las Palmas and Desokupa Tenerife, engages in the lucrative activity of swiftly evicting individuals from properties whose owners require his professional services.
The police authorities are aware that they are dealing with a professional thug who has been convicted several times for violently threatening victims on behalf of certain clients who have, along with him, faced trial for these practices.
