Man charged with murder, body in car
MIAMI (AP) – Authorities say a South Florida man showed up at a Miami-Dade police station with his dead girlfriend in his car.
Police say 30-year-old Juan Carlos Portieles was charged Monday with second-degree murder in the death of 18-year-old Jaclyn Elisse Torrealba.
An arrest affidavit says Portieles and Torrealba got into a heated argument along a southwest Miami-Dade road Sunday morning. The argument became physical, and Portieles reportedly began beating and choking her until she stopped moving.
About 12 hours later, Portieles went to the police station and told officers what he had done. The man also told them where to find body in the front seat of his car.