Police fear that a man missing two weeks was the victim of foul play.
Fidel Trejos Portillo, 21, of Taylorsville, was last seen Wednesday, April 28, at the KFC/Taco Bell in Taylorsville at about 11 p.m. when he entered a white Ford Explorer with two unidentified Hispanic men, said Det. Lisa Johnson with the Taylorsville Police Department.
Portillo's father reported him missing the following night and police think he may have been the victim of foul play.
Around midday April 28 a man and a woman forced their way into Portillo's apartment and searched for him, according to police. His roommate was home but refused to cooperate with the pair and they would not tell him why they had come, Johnson said.
Portillo's roommate took out a warrant on the man and woman. Taylorsville police arrested Jorge Levya Velasquez, 29, and Noelia Hernandez Dia, 22, of 2054 Startown Road, and charged them with breaking and entering. Dia was arrested May 1, and Velasquez was arrested Monday.
Johnson said the couple refused to cooperate with investigators.
Dia made bond May 2, and Velasquez was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He is scheduled for deportation to Mexico Tuesday, Johnson said.
Investigators traced his cell phone to an area near Old Mountain Road in the eastern part of Alexander County, where it stopped working just after the last time Portillo was last seen alive.
"It's just as if he vanished," Johnson said.
Police have not released a possible motive for Portillo's disappearance and said he was not known as a troublemaker.
"He was at work every day. He had a job and an apartment with a roommate. He was a normal 20-year-old," Johnson said.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Taylorsville police at 632-2218.
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