{"id":388605,"date":"2026-07-28T03:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388605\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T03:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:25:21","slug":"police-arrest-suspect-accused-of-strangling-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388605\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspect accused of strangling girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suspect accused of strangling girlfriend in Columbia arrested in Texas<\/p>\n

\"BlairCOLUMBIA, Md. \u2014<\/p>\n

Howard County police said the man accused of strangling his girlfriend over the weekend in Columbia was arrested on Monday afternoon by local authorities in Texas.<\/p>\n

According to Howard County Police, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Darwin Carcamo-Santiago, 24, in connection to the death of Esmeralda Perez-Mendez, 35, of Takoma Park. He is wanted for allegedly strangling Perez-Mendez inside a residence in the 9000 block of Watchlight Court. <\/p>\n

Police said they responded to the residence on July 26 after an acquaintance of the suspect found Perez-Mendez dead in the suspect’s bedroom. <\/p>\n

According to police, the victim suffered injuries consistent with strangulation and detectives believe she was killed in the overnight hours on July 25-26. <\/p>\n

They have described him as a Hispanic man who is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds with black hair. <\/p>\n

Anyone who has any information on his whereabouts is asked to contact police at 410-313-STOP or email HCPDCrimeTips@howardcountymd.gov<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suspect accused of strangling girlfriend in Columbia arrested in Texas COLUMBIA, Md. \u2014 Howard County police said the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136960,2397,9913,136951,52169,338,9189,136952,27237,136959,136961,2461,108874,136950,7841,3811,136958,136957,97,11705,15380,45848,136955,4752,101,136953,27,29,28,1976,136956,136954,73],"class_list":["post-388605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-410-313-stop","tag-arrest-warrant","tag-columbia","tag-darwin-carcamo-santiago","tag-detective","tag-developing-story","tag-domestic-violence","tag-esmeralda-perez-mendez","tag-girlfriend","tag-hcpdcrimetips","tag-hispanic-man","tag-homicide","tag-howard-county","tag-howard-county-police","tag-injury","tag-july","tag-july-25","tag-july-26","tag-man","tag-maryland","tag-police-search","tag-residence","tag-strangling","tag-strangulation","tag-suspect","tag-tacoma-park","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-victim","tag-wanted-suspect","tag-watchlight-court","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}