Outstanding investigative work by police department crime scene experts and South Precinct detectives led to this afternoon’s arrest of a 17-year-old Honduran national for Wednesday’s “stranger” home invasion robbery on Cedar Drive, during which the 36-year-old female victim was bound with electrical cords and gagged with a shirt.
South detectives arrested Leonzo Laenez of 860 Murfreesboro Pike at 12:30 p.m. in the parking lot of his apartment complex after forensic evidence collected at the crime scene by Officer Tim Matthews led to his identification. The victim subsequently identified Laenez from a photo line-up. He refused to answer lead Detective Bill Stewart’s questions, and is now being held at juvenile detention on a charge of aggravated robbery.
At 10:10 a.m. Wednesday, Laenez and an accomplice knocked on the victim’s door. When she answered, they forced their way in at gunpoint, bound her, ransacked the home, and took cash, jewelry, and a cell phone. The victim, who is of Hispanic descent, freed herself and contacted a friend who aided in translating her account of events to a 911 operator.
The suspects fled Cedar Drive in a two-tone green Ford Expedition, which was located today in the apartment complex parking lot. Efforts are continuing to identify Laenez’s accomplice.
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