165:, after which he followed her to her house and confronted her. He claimed that he had been hired as a private detective to expose her infidelity, threatening to tell her family and friends if she did not have sex with him and pay him $ 3,000. Frightened, the woman accepted, and only a day later, she went to a vacant house on Vía Tocumen, where Meneses sexually abused her. After this, the victim reported the crime to the police, who instructed her to stage another meeting with him the next day, where he was successfully apprehended. While searching through Meneses' car, officers found the clothes he had worn the day he had raped the woman, as well as her underwear.
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Meneses was charged with rape, blackmail, theft and criminal misappropriation. He pleaded guilty to the theft and misappropriation charges and was convicted on the remaining two by the First
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A little over a month after the second warrant was issued, Panama's
Minister of Government and Justice, Arnulfo Escalona, announced that three police units have been organized and dispatched to regions of the country where they had received tips about potential sightings of Meneses. In addition to
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Meneses' early life, aside from the fact that he was born in Panama in 1965. Described as a withdrawn, cold and calculating man who is proficient at analyzing and scamming people, he obtained a bachelor's degree from the José Antonio Remón Cantera College and then enrolled at
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near Panama City. She was quickly identified as 32-year-old domestic worker
Leticia González Gaitán thanks to her employer, a dentist who recognized her porcelain-based dental work. González had gone missing just days prior when she left Panama City to travel to her home province of Veraguas, but
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The results determined that small traces of blood found in the Toyota indeed belonged to Ábrego, allowing prosecutor
Rolando Rodríguez to issue an arrest warrant for Meneses, with a special request that the warrant must not have an expiration date and that a criminal case can be started when the
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for some time, possibly wearing a fake wig and mustache, and the prize for his arrest has since been raised to $ 5,000. He has been consistently ranked among the Top Ten Most Wanted criminals in Panama, and as of August 2024, Meneses remains a fugitive from justice.
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never arrived. After interviewing a witness, it was established that González had been picked up by
Meneses, who then drove away with her in his car. Due to this, a separate arrest warrant was issued for this murder by another prosecutor, Argentina Barrera Flores.
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found the body of 44-year-old prostitute
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