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A Trio Village man was stabbed to death and robbed over the weekend. 36 year old Guatemalan Mario Oddilio Loyo was last seen on Friday when he went to cash his pay cheque. But Loyo's body was found yesterday evening around 5:00 in a drain on the village road with nothing but his underwear. Today police told us what else they found.

ASP Alejandro Cowo, Head of CIB
"Information was received by Independence police and as a result police went to an area that is about 4 miles from the junction of the southern highway into Trio road where upon arrival they observed the motionless body of a male person lying face down inside of drain. The person was observed to have several stab wounds to the chest and upon inspection of the body police were able to see that the male person was only wearing boxers at the time and also family members who arrived at the scene identified him as Mario Loyo, 36 years Guatemalan national of Trio Village. The information that police has gathered so far that Mr. Mario was last seen alive on Friday the 23rd when he left from Trio Village when he went to cash his cheque as he is employed at one of the orchards I the area. Police also inspected the scene about 1000 feet away from the crime scene police were able to recover other parts of the deceased clothing being his tennis, pants and groceries he had purchased. His motorcycle he was driving at the time of the incident is missing."

"It is suspected that it is robbery involved and his other personal documents and his money from his cashed cheque is missing and his motorcycle is missing."

Police have no suspects at this time. The post mortem was conducted today.