02-29-2012, 02:24 PM
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NEWBURGH, Maine — Police searching for missing Florida firefighter Jerry Perdomo discovered a body in woods off the Dahlia Farm Road in Newburgh, the Maine State Police said Wednesday. The body has not been identified.
The body was found near a Newburgh home that belongs to a relative of murder suspect Daniel Porter, 24, of Bangor. Porter was arrested for the murder of Perdomo, 31, on Tuesday after police found blood drops and skull fragments in a Jackson home rented by Porter’s father, according to a state police report released Wednesday.
Officials from the state medical examiner’s office arrived at the scene in Newburgh late Wednesday morning and additional information will be released Wednesday afternoon, according to a news release from Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
A Maine State Police affidavit filed in Waldo County Superior Court says Porter told police that Perdomo was dead and that he knew where the body and the gun used to kill him were, but refused to give that information to police. Porter’s father apparently also knew the location of the body and gun, but would not say, the affidavit said.
In the Jackson home, “crime scene technicians found evidence of blood droplets, spatter, what appears to be a piece of skull or bone and evidence of a broken window. There were new carpets on the floor covering an area that tested presumptive positive for blood,” said the affidavit, filed Wednesday by state police Detective Darryl Peary.
When police tested the blood against Perdomo’s father’s DNA for comparison, the samples were consistent with belonging to a father and offspring, the report states. Perdomo does have a brother, police wrote, but the brother told police he had never been to Maine.
When police searched the home, they also found a broken window with lead or metal pieces embedded in the window sill.
Police have said the case is a drug-related homicide. Porter told police that he owed Perdomo $3,000, the affidavit said.
Police said previously they believed that Porter was one of the last people to have had contact with Perdomo — a firefighter and emergency medical technician for the Seminole County Fire Department in Florida— who went missing Feb. 16. His rental car was found abandoned at the Bangor Walmart the next day.
The two men had a tempestuous relationship, according to the affidavit.
Last month both Porter and Perdomo complained to the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office about the other. Perdomo told police that “he observed Porter with a machine gun and that Porter threatened to shoot him and put him through a wood chipper. Porter stated that Perdomo threatened to cut his hands off and kill him,” Peary wrote.
Around that same time, Porter filed a complaint with the sheriff’s office that Perdomo had been throwing rocks through a window of his Newburgh home.
The last execution in Maine was in 1887. DP abolished.
NEWBURGH, Maine — Police searching for missing Florida firefighter Jerry Perdomo discovered a body in woods off the Dahlia Farm Road in Newburgh, the Maine State Police said Wednesday. The body has not been identified.
The body was found near a Newburgh home that belongs to a relative of murder suspect Daniel Porter, 24, of Bangor. Porter was arrested for the murder of Perdomo, 31, on Tuesday after police found blood drops and skull fragments in a Jackson home rented by Porter’s father, according to a state police report released Wednesday.
Officials from the state medical examiner’s office arrived at the scene in Newburgh late Wednesday morning and additional information will be released Wednesday afternoon, according to a news release from Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
A Maine State Police affidavit filed in Waldo County Superior Court says Porter told police that Perdomo was dead and that he knew where the body and the gun used to kill him were, but refused to give that information to police. Porter’s father apparently also knew the location of the body and gun, but would not say, the affidavit said.
In the Jackson home, “crime scene technicians found evidence of blood droplets, spatter, what appears to be a piece of skull or bone and evidence of a broken window. There were new carpets on the floor covering an area that tested presumptive positive for blood,” said the affidavit, filed Wednesday by state police Detective Darryl Peary.
When police tested the blood against Perdomo’s father’s DNA for comparison, the samples were consistent with belonging to a father and offspring, the report states. Perdomo does have a brother, police wrote, but the brother told police he had never been to Maine.
When police searched the home, they also found a broken window with lead or metal pieces embedded in the window sill.
Police have said the case is a drug-related homicide. Porter told police that he owed Perdomo $3,000, the affidavit said.
Police said previously they believed that Porter was one of the last people to have had contact with Perdomo — a firefighter and emergency medical technician for the Seminole County Fire Department in Florida— who went missing Feb. 16. His rental car was found abandoned at the Bangor Walmart the next day.
The two men had a tempestuous relationship, according to the affidavit.
Last month both Porter and Perdomo complained to the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office about the other. Perdomo told police that “he observed Porter with a machine gun and that Porter threatened to shoot him and put him through a wood chipper. Porter stated that Perdomo threatened to cut his hands off and kill him,” Peary wrote.
Around that same time, Porter filed a complaint with the sheriff’s office that Perdomo had been throwing rocks through a window of his Newburgh home.
The last execution in Maine was in 1887. DP abolished.