The second “person of interest” in a fatal carjacking earlier this month has been arrested on drug charges.
Giovany Crespo Hernandez was arrested on Monday, according to jail records.
Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said last week that investigators believe Hernandez was the last person to speak with Katherine Aguasvivas before she was carjacked and killed on April 11, as CrimeOnline reported.
Lemma announced police were looking for Hernandez on the same day he announced the arrest of Jordanish Torres-Garcia on an outstanding federal gun warrant. Torres-Garcia is also a “person of interest,” Lemma said, and investigators believe he is the man seen in witness video getting out a green Acura that rammed Aguasvivas’s vehicle and then getting in the back seat of her Dodge Durango.
Two hours later, the Durango was found on fire with Aguasvivas shot to death inside.
Lemma would not say if investigators believe Herndandez was the driver of the Acura involved in the carjacking.
Investigators were alerted to Hernandez by Aguasvivas’s brother, who was conducting an “independent investigation” in the carjacking. He accessed Aguasvivas’s iCloud account and found that she had spoken with Hernandez via Facetime as she was driving from her home in south Florida to Seminole County. The brother, without contacting law enforcement, called Hernandez, who told him that Aguasvivas was traveling to the area “to deliver money and other stuff for a friend,” Lemma said.
Seminole County detectives eventually contacted the brother and learned the information. They matched a screenshot of the brother’s Facetime conversation with a 2019 mugshot for Hernandez and went looking for him. By the time they arrived at his home last week, however, he was gone.
Police have linked the green Acura, which was later found abandoned in Orlando, to Torres-Garcia and to the murder of a tow-truck driver in Orange County the day before Aguasvivas’s murder.
Neither Hernandez nor Torres-Garcia have been charged in connection with the carjacking or either murder linked to the Acura. Lemma said that investigators are still waiting for phone, computer, and other records to help them make that case.
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[Featured image: Katherine Aguasvivas and Giovany Crespo Hernandez/Seminole County Sheriff’s Office]