Man Gets More Jail Time for Hiding Murder Victim

0:00A man serving a 20-year sentence for murder in El Paso just got hit with another conviction in New Mexico. Javare Stefan Freeman-Handy was found guilty by an Otero County jury on March 16th of tampering with evidence. The charge ties back to the 2021 death of 37-year-old Rodolfo Fuentes, whose body he hid in a vehicle. The trouble started when Freeman-Handy beat Fuentes in an El Paso apartment parking lot on November 17th, 2021. He forced his girlfriend to drive the SUV around, with Fuentes in the back, before parking it in Chaparral, New Mexico. That delay meant the body stayed hidden for weeks. Locals tipped off deputies about a possible body in the trailblazer, but initial checks missed it amid a bad smell they blamed on sewage. It wasn't until the vehicle hit an impound lot on December 7th that workers bound Fuentes stuffed in a duffel bag, legs bound. Freeman-Handy has a long rap sheet, including an eight-year sentence for shooting a four-bliss soldier in 2010 and a recent guilty plea to.

1:02Fuentes' murder in El Paso, landing the 20-year term. He faces up to three more years plus four as a habitual offender, with sentencing still pending. Meanwhile, he's got a battery charge against the jail officer waiting trial. This case wraps up another chapter in a violent history that keeps adding time behind bars. That's your update from El Paso News today, powered by AI.