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The researchers waited almost 20 years to interview Antonio Riano On a fatal shooting outside a Hamilton bar And when he finally sat down with the police, he admitted to having opened fire against Benjamin Becerra Ramírez, 25, during a skirmish.
The judge of the common pleas of Butler County, Michael Oster Jr. Constitutional rights When they talk to investigators in the Hamilton Police Department last August.
Riano is expected to be tried for a murder position on April 1 and prosecutors will probably submit their statements to the police as evidence of the jury. Prosecutors say Riano shot Becerra Ramírez in the head with a .38 caliber revolver out of a bar in East Avenue in December 2004.
Police arrested the man known as ‘El Diablo’ working as a policeman in Mexico
Riano was accused of murder in 2005 and arrested last year by the Mexican Police in his hometown of Zapotitlan Palmas in Oaxaca, where he worked as a police officer.
After being extradited to the United States, Riano told the Police during an interview of approximately 90 minutes that he went to face a group after communicating that his younger brother had been attacked, according to a transcription of the interview shown in the Court.
The group attacked Riano while he was off the bar and recovered a gun from his truck and fired two shots towards the group, according to the transcription.
Riano’s lawyer, Kara Blackney, said Riano also told the Police that they had shot her at first.
After interviewing witnesses, the investigators identified Riano as a suspect and learned that he was commonly known as “The Devil,” wrote a former Hamilton Police detective in a sworn statement.
Prosecutors said the surveillance video also showed Riano took out a revolver and an open fire on calf.
Police recorded a house on East Avenue where Riano had parked his vehicle and found a box of ammunition that coincided with the weapon used in the shooting. When the police then registered Riano’s house, they learned that he used several false names and had documents to create false documentation to obtain different identifications.
Prosecutors have said that Riano was in the country illegally at the time of shooting.
Researchers: Riano fled to Mexico after shooting
A primary school teacher attended by Riano’s daughter told the Police that she listened to the child’s mother to say that they moved to New Jersey, where the family had previously lived.
The researchers contacted the New Jersey authorities to help locate Riano, however, they were told that they had just left the country.
Police said they interviewed Riano’s mother, who said he had fought with Riano the night before the shooting and left him. She told police that a friend had taken him to Mexico.
Two years after the shooting, the owner of the house of East Avenue found that the revolver used to shoot Becerra under the floor of a bathroom closet, the researchers said, added that Riano bought ammunition from a local Walmart less than an hour before the shooting.
The Butler County Sheriff’s office listed Riano as a fugitive sought and the case was even outlined in the “most wanted in the United States” of Fox, however, an earlier attempt to arrest him in Mexico was not successful.
Paul Newtown, principal investigator at the Butler County Prosecutor’s office, finally stumbled upon Riano’s Facebook account, which included a video of him.
The lawyer says that Riano was not informed of the rights during the interview.
Riano’s lawyer argued in the Court on Friday that his statements to the police should be expelled because the detectives did not adequately informed him of their constitutional rights in Spanish, their native language.
In a February court presentation, Blackney said Riano has lived most of his life in Mexico and has a limited understanding of the English language. He added that the officer who interviewed Riano “seems not to be fluid in Spanish” and that Riano was not asked if he understood his rights before signing an exemption form.
He also pointed out the English transcription of the interview, in which a third -party translator indicates several times that the officer used non -Spanish words or words that were grammatically incorrect.
However, Lieutenant Eric Taylor, who conducted the interview, testified that he was born in Columbia and that Spanish is his first language, adding that he regularly uses Spanish as a police.
Taylor noticed several discrepancies between what the translator heard and what he remembers telling Riano while reading a Miranda Warning Card written in Spanish.
“He clearly understood,” Taylor said in court.
The judge finally found that Riano answered directly to the detective’s questions and never expressed concern that he did not understand his rights.
