The car involved in the kidnapping of a South Florida woman has been found

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Deputies revealed new information Monday in last week’s case involving a corpse in a burned car after an apparent kidnapping.

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said Monday at a press conference that deputies found a green 2002 Acura involved in the carjacking and kidnapping of 31-year-old Katherine Aguasvias on Saturday.

The car was towed from an Orange County apartment complex on March 19 after being parked illegally. It was later determined that the driver of the Acura had been killed the day before the April 10 kidnapping, authorities said.

A vehicle matching the description of the green Acura was found at the scene of the murder along with a 10mm round out of 100 rounds fired at the scene.

The original Acura purchase is from a family in Winter Springs who sold it in December, deputies said.

From there, it was purchased by a “buy here pay here” owner who sold it off a lot in Seminole County. The car went unregistered and without a registration number because the person who bought it never returned to finish the paperwork for the car, Lemma explained.

Acura is the only one of its kind in Florida.

Lemma also said an Orange County deputy was arrested and charged with several crimes after reporting sensitive information about a murder/kidnapping case to Aguasvias’ husband who was on his way to Seminole County to cooperate with deputies.

Aguasvias’ husband contacted the Orange County deputy’s wife through his brother who claimed to have known the woman since she was a child.

That’s when the deputy contacted the Seminole County detective handling the case and allegedly received the sensitive information. He is also accused of recording all conversations and searching for additional information through the police database illegally.

The deputy was charged with five counts including unlawfully accessing a police database, Lemma said.

Orange County deputies are leading the investigation into everything that happened in Orange County while Seminole County deputies are investigating the murder/kidnapping.

Authorities have yet to find the people involved in any homicide investigation, Lemma said.