{"id":388717,"date":"2026-07-28T05:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:43:07","slug":"maryland-man-accused-of-strangling-girlfriend-arrested-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388717\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland man accused of strangling girlfriend arrested in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOWARD COUNTY, Md. (7News) \u2014 Authorities in Texas have arrested 24-year-old Darwin Carcamo-Santiago in connection with the strangulation of his girlfriend, Esmeralda Perez-Mendez, in Columbia, Maryland. This came hours after Maryland authorities announced the search. <\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO | <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/sports\/content\/dc-open-gets-underway-at-the-rock-creek-park-tennis-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DC Open gets underway at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Howard County Police Department, an acquaintance discovered the 35-year-old&#8217;s body inside Carcamo-Santiago\u2019s bedroom in the 9000 block of Watchlight Court, Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe she was killed overnight between late Saturday and early Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Carcamo-Santiago was taken into custody without incident, Howard County officials said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOWARD COUNTY, Md. (7News) \u2014 Authorities in Texas have arrested 24-year-old Darwin Carcamo-Santiago in connection with the strangulation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-388717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388717","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=388717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}