The Canelones police, with sniffer dogs, are preparing to resume the search at the Cañada Grande de Pando landfill for the body of the 70-year-old man murdered by a police officer in 2017 Saint Anthony. The agent was charged after confessing to the crime. He admitted beating him to death, stealing his card and withdrawing money.
Carlos Cuadro lived alone in San Antonio, he was retired, but he had a small farm at home from which he lived.
On April 7, the baker who left the flute hanging on a tree every day discovered that the man had not removed the flute from the previous day and alerted his family, who filed a missing person report.
The investigation led to the arrest of a 31-year-old police officer who lived just a few meters from the victim’s house. It was confirmed that the agent used the missing person’s card to withdraw money at an ATM in San B autista, where he withdrew 30,000 pesos. He was filmed there but then continued to withdraw cash.
Finally, the police officer confessed to the crime, admitted to killing the man in an argument and then loading the body into his car and throwing it onto a dump truck.
This weekend the judiciary charged the police officer with the crime killing This is particularly aggravated by the fact that the act was committed to consolidate another crime, in this case theft. However, the victim’s body has not yet been found.
Canelones police searched for Cuadro’s body on Friday and Saturday. The operation with sniffer dogs was interrupted by the rains in the Cañada Grande landfill area. All of San Antonio’s trash ends up there, and by the date investigators estimate the murder occurred, there would be more than 6,000 tons of trash on the body. Police officers in collaboration with officials from the municipality of Canelones.