Carthage man arrested in connection to body found in camper
UPDATE
CARTHAGE, Mo. — An investigation into a body found in Carthage Thursday leads to the arrest of one suspect Friday morning.
Carthage Police investigators said the body found inside of a camper trailer in the 600 block of N. Main St. was identified as Kenia Lopez, 24, of Carthage. She died from an apparent homicide, authorities added.
A man at the scene, Gavino McJunkins-Macias, 23, also of Carthage, was detained for questioning and subsequently arrested for abandonment of a corpse.
Local authorities are working with the Miami County Kansas Sheriff’s Office since the homicide is believed to have happened in Miami County, before Lopez’s body was discovered in Carthage. Their investigation remains ongoing.
Charges for second degree murder are pending for McJunkins-Macias while he remains in the Jasper County Jail.
Body found in camper in Carthage
CARTHAGE, Mo. — Carthage Police are investigating the discovery of a body in a camper.
Around 11:30 Thursday morning a man called Carthage Police and reported there was a deceased person inside a camper. Officers responded to an area just north of the Butterball plant on land owned by the city’s levee district. When officers arrived they found a body inside a camper.
They are not releasing information about whether it is a man or a woman. CPD Lt. Eric Miller said they have detained a man for questioning. Miller said there appears to be no threat to the public at this time.
Officers are following up on information that the camper might have come from Kansas and arrived shortly before the call was made to police.
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