The Brief
- Arnaldo Cintron is expected in court on Monday for a bond hearing.
- He faces charges, including second-degree murder, in the stabbing death of his girlfriend’s cousin, Hiojaira Velez Bonilla.
- Hillsborough County detectives say Cintron and his girlfriend, Giselle Bonilla, dumped the victim’s body in the Weedon Island Preserve.
TAMPA, Fla. – A Tampa judge could decide Monday whether the man accused of stabbing his girlfriend’s cousin to death at a Riverview home, then dumping her body in the Weedon Island Preserve, will stay behind bars until his trial.
The backstory:
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Arnaldo Cintron, 42, stabbed Hiojaira Velez Bonilla, 42, during an argument over bills at a home they shared on Maybrook Ave. in Riverview earlier this month.
The victim’s boyfriend, who claimed to have witnessed the murder, told detectives that Cintron and his girlfriend, 37-year-old Giselle Bonilla, forced him to help clean up the crime scene and drive the victim’s car to dump her body in the Weedon Island Preserve in Pinellas County.…