WEST PALM Seashore, Fla. — The Florida Office of Law Enforcement introduced Wednesday that an Okeechobee County grand jury has indicted a suspect on a money murder demand in relationship with the slaying of a South Florida Lyft driver.
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The grand jury returned a three-rely indictment against Matthew Scott Flores, 36, on charges of 1st-diploma premeditated murder with a firearm, robbery with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, reported FDLE agent Eli Lawson all through a news convention.
“Our brokers and lover brokers have worked relentlessly about the past nine months putting this case alongside one another (and) bringing us wherever we are currently,” he said. “I can tell you we have a good situation in opposition to Mr. Flores.”
The suspect was arrested in North Carolina 7 months in the past adhering to a superior-pace chase that spanned quite a few counties in the car or truck that belonged to Gary Levin.
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Levin, 74, who lived in Palm Beach front Garden and drove for Lyft in his spare time, was documented missing on Jan. 29.
His relatives stated at the time that he had picked up a passenger in Delray Beach front shortly just before 1:30 p.m. and drove the passenger to Okeechobee County all-around 4:30 p.m. Family members claimed that is when Levin’s Lyft app and mobile phone have been very last used.
Flores was later spotted by law enforcement officials in North Carolina although he was driving Levin’s pink 2022 Kia Stinger.
Flores, who had beforehand lived in North Carolina, was arrested subsequent a vehicle chase and foot pursuit but was later on extradited from Rutherford County, N.C., again to Florida on Aug. 8 to confront prices unrelated to Levin’s death and disappearance.
Lawson said investigators ended up capable to hyperlink Flores to the previous acknowledged experience that Levin carried out in advance of he went lacking.
Levin’s remains have been later on observed in a rural, wooded area of Okeechobee County on Feb. 4, Lawson reported.
“His murder was chilly, it was senseless and entirely avoidable,” Lawson reported. “Mr. Levin was a beloved member of the group below in Palm Seashore. He is a father and friend. His cherished ones have knowledgeable insurmountable grief no just one should have to go via.”
Flores is also a suspect in a Wauchula, Florida murder investigation in which a man was fatally shot, authorities said.
