Lancaster man extradited from Peru to face murder charge months after wife’s body found in forest
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A Lancaster man accused of killing his wife, dumping her body in a forest and then fleeing to Peru has been extradited back to the U.S., authorities said.
Jossimar Cabrera was apprehended around 7:30 p.m. Friday at Los Angeles International Airport for the murder of Sheylla Gutierrez. He was taken to a sheriff’s station and booked for murder, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
Cabrera was arrested in Peru in late August and was awaiting extradition back to the U.S. to face a murder charge filed by the district attorney’s office.
U.S. Marshals helped homicide detectives and the sheriff’s Major Crimes Bureau Fugitive Task Force in taking Cabrera into custody.
Gutierrez’s body was found Aug. 16 at the bottom of an embankment in the Angeles National Forest. The 33-year-old had been reported missing on Aug. 12.
Homicide detectives said they located surveillance footage of Cabrera dragging a heavy object wrapped “in a large piece of material” from their apartment complex in Lancaster. When the victim’s body was discovered, it was wrapped in similar material, the Sheriff’s Department said.
The suspect had fled to Peru with the couple’s three sons. Peru’s foreign ministry said Aug. 16 on social media that it had repatriated the children back to L.A. via Mexico City to be reunited with their mother’s family.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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