{"id":346142,"date":"2026-07-20T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346142\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:06:08","slug":"orlando-man-faces-charges-4-years-after-murder-during-armed-robbery-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346142\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando man faces charges 4 years after murder during armed robbery in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A 40-year-old man was behind bars on Monday in Miami-Dade County, accused of a man\u2019s 2021 murder in Miami\u2019s Little Havana neighborhood, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives accused Edgar Olivas of fatally shooting Walter Casta\u00f1eda during a robbery shortly after 8:10 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2021\/10\/15\/a-grieving-family-says-the-way-police-responded-to-a-robbery-in-little-havana-cost-their-loved-one-his-life\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2021\/10\/15\/a-grieving-family-says-the-way-police-responded-to-a-robbery-in-little-havana-cost-their-loved-one-his-life\/\">on Oct. 1, 2021<\/a>, at 443 NW 12 Ave., records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Casta\u00f1eda, 62, who was armed with a .38 revolver, was pulling down shutters after closing his Boost Mobile store when Olivas ambushed him, police reported, according to an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLet everything go,\u201d Olivas, then 36, ordered Casta\u00f1eda, a witness reported to police, according to the arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Olivas, of Orlando, stole Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s black bag, and Casta\u00f1eda pulled out a revolver and fired at Olivas, who then returned fire and fled, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami Fire Rescue personnel took Casta\u00f1eda to Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center, where a doctor later pronounced him dead, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Miami homicide detective tracked Olivas\u2019s getaway car, a white 2022 four-door Honda Civic that was reported stolen on Oct. 3, 2021, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The owner of the Honda Civic reported renting the car on Sept. 29, 2021, to a woman who police later identified as Megan Hester-Villalobos, according to the arrest warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Honda\u2019s GPS helped detectives to find evidence at a motel at 148 NW 167 St., near North Miami Beach, a gas station at 744 NW 12 Ave., in Little Havana, and an apartment at 2523 N. Alafaya Trail, in Orlando, according to the arrest warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies helped Miami homicide detectives find a video of the Honda that was published on an Instagram account that Hester-Villalobos used, according to the arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade corrections booked Olivas, 40, shortly before 8:55 a.m. on Friday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to county inmate records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Olivas faced two charges: First-degree murder and armed robbery with a deadly weapon, according to county court records. A judge denied him bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2021\/10\/15\/a-grieving-family-says-the-way-police-responded-to-a-robbery-in-little-havana-cost-their-loved-one-his-life\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2021\/10\/15\/a-grieving-family-says-the-way-police-responded-to-a-robbery-in-little-havana-cost-their-loved-one-his-life\/\">A grieving family says the way police responded to a robbery in Little Havana cost their loved one his life<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 A 40-year-old man was behind bars on Monday in Miami-Dade County, accused of a man\u2019s 2021&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-346142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}