Posted on 04/18/2010 2:35:54 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Former WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero was detained on suspicion of killing his wife on Sunday, police said.
Venezuelan Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores said Valero was arrested after police found the body of his 20-year-old wife in a hotel in the city of Valencia. Valero left the hotel room around dawn on Sunday and allegedly told the hotel's security personnel that he had killed Jennifer Viera, Flores said.
Flores told state television that police found three stab wounds on Viera's body. He said Valero was transferred a local police precinct, "where we are headed to take samples needed for the investigation of the case" and to question the boxer.
Valero's lawyer, Milda Mora, did not immediately answer telephone calls seeking comment.
The 28-year-old boxer has been in trouble with the law before.
The boxer has an image of Chavez tattooed on his chest.
Man...I can’t believe we didn’t renew his Visa...seems like a nice young man.
I wonder if there are talks underway for renewing it now, and giving him diplomatic immunity so he can join the Obama Administration?
Surely his empathy and life experience are of great value and would fit right in with the current efforts.
Valero is a scumbag. He beat his mother and sister, beat the crap out of his (now dead) wife about a month ago and has know alcohol issues.
Good riddance to this piece of crap. I just wish he would have held off long enough for Juan Manuel Marquez to put a beatdown on him.
McCain would probably think so
he’s dead, Jim
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sportsprose/2010/04/edwin_valero_suspected_of_kill.html
(Edwin Valero, suspected of killing his wife, commits suicide)
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