EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police in Juarez, Mexico, are trying to find out who abandoned a stolen car that was taken to a government impound lot, where the owner days later found a body in the trunk.
Police had retrieved the abandoned pink 1995 Ford Contour on Dec. 3 near the corner of Durazno and Troncoso streets in Juarez. They took the vehicle to Municipal Impound Lot No. 3, where it sat for days until authorities came across a stolen car report filed on Sept. 18 and called the owner.
According to a police report obtained by Border Report, when the owner showed up to reclaim her vehicle on Wednesday, she and a lot attendant found a body inside that had been wrapped in clear plastic tape from head to toe.
The deceased was a male in his 30s with signs of physical violence, according to the report. Police did not immediately establish a cause of death, but told reporters they did not see bullet wounds, nor recovered any bullet casings from inside the trunk.
Authorities transported the body to the Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy; the car was placed in the custody of Chihuahua state police investigators.
Juarez officials told Border Report earlier that organized criminal gangs are increasingly resorting to the use of stolen cars to commit crimes since police expanded a network of surveillance cameras throughout the city.
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