An uncle and nephew have been arrested and face charges of first-degree murder in the stabbing of a man whose body was found in a dumpster at a senior community in the south end of West Palm Beach in 2022, police said Tuesday night.
Brian Van Pelt/WPTVAfter nearly two years of investigative work, Reynaldo Paredes, 53, of Palm Beach County, and his nephew Yoel Lazano Paredes, 24, of Freeport, Illinois, were apprehended by West Palm Beach police and the U.S. Marshals Service on Tuesday morning, spokesman Mike Jachles said in a news release. The older man was arrested in West Palm Beach and the other man in Freeport.
They are accused of stabbing Jorge Mobilla Menendez, 49, of West Palm Beach after all three were seen leaving a Mexican sports bar in the 5200 block of Georgia Avenue after midnight April 3.
At 8:49 a.m., a Spanish-speaking caller to 911 reported finding a body in the dumpster in 3900 block of Southridge Court in the Southridge Senior Community.