Justice
They suspend again a hearing against the former PNC sub -inspector Edyel Leonel Vásquez Rabanales and a blood sample required by the MP is not possible to extract in the case of the death of a Canadian and a Guatemalan in San Andrés Itzapa.
The former PNC sub -inspector, Edu Leonel Vásquez Rabanales, attends a hearing in the Court of greatest risk B. (Free Press Photo: Érick Ávila)
The National Institute of Forensic Sciences has failed to extract the blood sample to the sub -inspector of the National Civil Police (PNC) Edyonel Vásquez Rabanales, which the judge ordered as part of the process for the death of a Guatemalan and a Canadian in San Andrés Itzapa, Chimaltenango.
For this Wednesday, February 25, it was planned to hold a hearing in which he should have extracted a blood sample, at the request of the Public Ministry (MP); However, it did not develop because the defense lawyer did not appear and Judge Manolo López, head of the Court of greatest risk B, decreed the abandonment.
Elmer Palencia, defender of the plundering, said he presented an excuse not to present himself, but for reasons that the judge does not accept it; In addition, he said that his sponsor did not accept that a criminal public defense lawyer would represent him at the hearing, so he was suspended.
Palencia says that he has not been notified that abandonment was decreed and questioned the judge’s decisions.
Vásquez was deported on August 5, 2024 by the United States to Guatemala. The plundering had an international alert for accusations of having participated in the death of a Canadian citizen and a Guatemalan.
The events would have occurred on April 21, 2024 in San Andrés Itzapa, Chimaltenango.
Vásquez was apprehended on June 11 in Arizona, after having fled from Guatemala and having illegally entered the US territory.