A man has been charged with tampering with evidence in connection with the cold case death of his 20-year-old girlfriend, who disappeared in 2019 and was later found burned in a field.
Bexar County sheriff’s deputies and SWAT officers arrested Joey Emiliano Tovar Vargas on Saturday at his South Side home, Sheriff Javier Salazar said during a news conference.
Tovar, 24, is charged with tampering with evidence with intent to impair a human corpse. Investigators believe he put Gonzales’ body in a trash can, loaded it into the back of her pickup truck and dumped her remains in the Southwest Side field where she was found, according to an arrest affidavit…