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Two Arrested in Peru for Drugging and Killing American Airlines Flight Attendant | Crime Alert 08.07.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: Two gang members are in custody after allegedly drugging, robbing,
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  Speaker 1: and killing an American Airlines flight attendant during an international layover.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty two year old Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina, based in
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth, vanished on March twenty second while visiting Metayine, Colombia.
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  Speaker 1: Five days later, his body was found abandoned between the
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  Speaker 1: municipalities of Jericho and Puente Iglesias. The US Embassy in
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  Speaker 1: Colombia announced that two men were arrested in Peru for
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  Speaker 1: Molina's death, twenty three year old Andreas Felippe Pena Carals
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  Speaker 1: and thirty one year old William o'lave Gamboa. The arrests
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  Speaker 1: were executed under Colombian warrants following a joint operation between
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security Investigations offices in Bogata and Lima, alongside police
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  Speaker 1: in Colombia and Peru. Corals escaped to Bogata before fleeing
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  Speaker 1: to Peru, where he was caught and transferred back to Colombia.
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  Speaker 1: Gamba remains in custody in Lima awaiting formal extradition. A
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  Speaker 1: third suspect, twenty four year old Maria del Carman Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 1: was also arrested for her alleged involvement in the gang's operations.
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  Speaker 1: Police investigations revealed the men belonged to a gang targeting
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  Speaker 1: foreign citizens through digital dating platforms. Investigators say Molina was
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  Speaker 1: contacted through a dating app, met individuals at a nightclub
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  Speaker 1: in El Pablado and accompanied them to a hotel. There,
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  Speaker 1: he was given a debilitating substance Metagine. Mayor Fedrico Gutierrez
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  Speaker 1: explained that the suspects allegedly stole money from Molina's bank
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  Speaker 1: accounts and took his jewelry before transporting his body to
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  Speaker 1: a remote wooded area. A forensic report determined Molina's cause
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  Speaker 1: of death was mechanical asphyxiation. Both Keralis and Gamboa faced
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  Speaker 1: charges of aggravated homicide and aggravated robbery. In a statement
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  Speaker 1: on x, the US Embassy in Columbia thanked local authorities
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  Speaker 1: for leading the investigation and reaffirmed their commitment to dismantling
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  Speaker 1: criminal network targeting international travelers. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 1: After this, a Hawaii Democratic congressional candidate is facing felony
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  Speaker 1: charges after a wild, profanity laced beach confrontation was caught
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  Speaker 1: on camera days before a court appearance. US House candidate
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  Speaker 1: Careel Basin was knocked unconscious during an altercation at Kiavakapu Beach.
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  Speaker 1: Video footage shows Bason approaching beach gooers and aggressively demanding
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  Speaker 1: a man put his bag away. I told him, if
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  Speaker 1: he wants to go the world, come here. The confrontation
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  Speaker 1: cooled briefly when Bason shook a person's hand, but the
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  Speaker 1: piece lasted only seconds. Bason turned toward another beach goer,
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  Speaker 1: shouted an obscenity and resumed arguing. When a man warned
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  Speaker 1: Basin not to speak to his girlfriend in that manner,
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  Speaker 1: Bason reacted with hostility. Hey, I don't care, I'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: The exchange escalated rapidly as Bason repeatedly asked what they
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  Speaker 1: were going to do and challenged another man to fight
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  Speaker 1: an go ahead. I didn't put him in the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't put him in the ground. Didn't Let's go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. After a woman called him a child, Bason
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  Speaker 1: demanded to know what she said, threatened to put her
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital and in the ground and hurled derogatory
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  Speaker 1: terms while walking away child I'm a child for years
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  Speaker 1: old crown. Moments later, Bason walked toward his belongings, where
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  Speaker 1: Kama Homan approached. Basin shoved Homan, triggering a scuffle. Basin
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  Speaker 1: stumbled backward over beach chairs, fell to the sand, got
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  Speaker 1: back up, and swung a chair at Homan. Homan, who
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  Speaker 1: has mixed martial arts training, knocked Basin unconscious with the
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  Speaker 1: left right combination. After regaining consciousness, Bason stated he was
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  Speaker 1: going to jail before charging Homan again. A criminal complaint
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  Speaker 1: alleges Basin threatened multiple people, including threatening Homan with a
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  Speaker 1: five inch switchblade recovered by Maui police. At his initial
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  Speaker 1: court appearance, a judge maintained Bason's one million dollar bail
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  Speaker 1: and ordered a mental health assessment. Seven teenagers were injured
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  Speaker 1: and an innocent driver was killed in a crash involving
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  Speaker 1: a stolen car in Maryland. The Montgomery County Police Department
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  Speaker 1: reports that at approximately five twenty five in the morning
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, August fourth, officers responded to a collision at
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  Speaker 1: Great Senica Highway and Klopper Road in Germantown involving at
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  Speaker 1: Toyota Matrix and a stolen Kia Optima. According to preliminary findings,
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  Speaker 1: The white Kia Optima, reported stolen from a Montgomery County
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  Speaker 1: residence hours after the crash, entered the intersection and struck
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  Speaker 1: the Toyota Matrix. The mail driver of the Toyota Matrix
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  Speaker 1: died of the scene. Seven juveniles aged twelve to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: inside the stolen Kia were injured. The teenage driver was
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  Speaker 1: hospitalized in critical condition, while remaining passengers were taken to
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  Speaker 1: trauma centers. The Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service reported
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  Speaker 1: extricating trapped occupants from the wreckage. Photos showed the blue
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  Speaker 1: Toyota Matrix crushed and the Kia Optima overturned on a hedge.
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  Speaker 1: Witnesses reported seeing erratic driving in a car on fire
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  Speaker 1: following the impact. Montgomery County Police continued to investigate, with
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  Speaker 1: officials reminding parents to monitor their children's whereabouts. For more
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Silvanni