Seminole officers recover vehicle used in botched carjacking

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — The investigation into a fatal Winter Springs carjacking continues as we learn that the vehicle involved was at the scene of two murders on two separate days.

Before authorities found the car seen in the video released last week, Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma says it was towed from an Orange County apartment complex in March.

The day before Katherine Aguasvivas was kidnapped and killed, a tow truck driver was killed.

Investigators are currently working through these new details and want to be sure that these crimes are connected and, if so, how.

Sheriff Dennis Lemma says the green Acura was owned by a family in Winter Springs.

We’re told they sold it at a car dealership in December.

It was then sold on an automated move and bought by a “buy here, pay now” operator.

The car still had the owner’s title in Winter Springs.

Sheriff Lemma says the owners did not have enough time to make a legal transfer, so who ended up getting the car is still a mystery.

“The car has been on the street probably since February, unregistered, without a license plate,” Sheriff Lemma said.

What’s becoming clearer, the sheriff says, is what they discovered last week.

“The tow truck driver of this vehicle was the victim of a homicide in Orange County that occurred the day before our kidnapping homicide,” Sheriff Lemma said.

According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to 8th Avenue in Taft last Wednesday.

There they found 39-year-old Juan Luis Cintron Garcia shot.

He later died in hospital.

Seminole County Sheriff Lemma begins to connect the dots as he works with his colleagues from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

“I absolutely think they are connected. But we need to have evidence to prove that,” Sheriff Lemma said.

Sheriff Lemma says “VIN” – the vehicle identification number, is the common denominator.

While all these new events are being revealed, the suspect or suspects have not yet been identified.

“We still have very dangerous people out there on the streets. We want to encourage our public not to approach these people,” Sheriff Lemma said.

If you have information about this case, you are asked to call the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.