Clinton County Sheriff Dan Travous says charges have been filed in connection with a November 5th homicide.
The sheriff reports the body of 22-year-old Marcos Chavez of Breese was located deceased near Carlyle Lake on November sixth on what had started the day before as an investigation into a possible kidnapping and unlawful restraint.
Travous says 28-year-old Valentin Nau Navarro-Lopez had been developed as a suspect during a multi-county search for Chavez.
A warrant was issued for Navarro-Lopez’s arrest on kidnapping and unlawful restraint charges and he was taken into custody on November 6th in Gordon County, Georgia. Navarro-Lopez was then returned to Clinton County the following day.
Four counts of first-degree murder were added on November 9th after the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office Detectives Division presented additional evidence to Clinton County State’s Attorney J.D. Brandmeyer on Chavez’s disappearance and subsequent death.
Lopez is being held in the Clinton County Jail at Carlyle in lieu of a $2-million bond.
