The mother of a Hialeah man who went missing and was later found dead spoke about the crime after one of the suspects turned herself in to police in Mexico after more than a month on the run.
Daylon Fleitas, 37, disappeared in early August, the same day authorities said he met with one of the suspects, 32-year-old Alfredo Carballo Gonzalez, in the area of 95th Avenue and Northwest 106th Street.
Carballo Gonzalez was seen entering Fleitas Gonzalez’s truck, where an altercation took place, investigators said. Shortly after, Carballo Gonzalez placed a recycling bin in the bed of the Fleitas’ truck and drove it away, with the second suspect, 27-year-old Ariely Alvarez Cabrera, following him in another vehicle.
Authorities are searching for a man and a woman wanted in the killing of a man who went missing from Hialeah more than a week ago, and they say the suspects may be traveling with a baby. The victim, 37-year-old Daylon Fleitas, was last seen on Aug. 3 in Hialeah and was reported missing the next day.
Days later, detectives found Fleitas’ truck along with “multiple items of evidentiary value,” the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said. Detectives searched the area nearby and found the recycling bin with Fleitas’ body inside.
On Monday, after more than a month at large, Alvarez Cabrera surrendered to police in Mexico. She was extradited to Broward County, and will eventually face a judge in Miami-Dade.
Maria del Carmen, the mother of the victim, spoke to our sister station Telemundo 51 in Spanish from the doorway of her home on Tuesday.
Broward Sheriff’s Office
Broward Sheriff’s Office
Ariely Alvarez Cabrera
When asked if she felt any consolation in the fact that one of the suspects was behind bars, she firmly said no.
“We are still not complete, because [Carballo Gonzalez] is still loose on the street, and like they did to me, they could harm someone else,” she said. “We want justice, God’s justice, which always comes.”
She said Fleitas and the suspect knew each other, that they were from the same town in Cuba and that Carballo Gonzalez had “access to the whole family.”
She said she believes the argument was over money that her son had lent the suspect.
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office
Authorities are searching for a man and a woman wanted in the killing of a man who went missing from Hialeah more than a week ago, and they say the suspects may be traveling with a baby.
“My son had lent him some money, done him a favor, and he went to charge him,” she said. “This happened to him because he lent him money.”
The grieving mother said she was a Christian and was praying for the suspects’ 6-month-old baby, who was also missing when the suspects took off.
“May God have mercy… He’s just a little baby. It’s not his fault that he has the parents he has,” she said.
The child has since been found safe, and is now in Florida, authorities said.
Maria del Carmen said she remembers her son as a happy person who helped others, as she awaits justice in his death.