The owner of the security firm said the suspect had passed a background check and had worked for him for a brief time, according to Colorado Springs television station KRDO’s report.Īccording to KRDO, Martinez told detectives that he had picked up the woman but said he dropped her off early in the morning of Jan. Police searched the creek after a man who contacted them showed them a video of a decapitated body.Īccording to reports, the suspect, 26-year-old Solomon Martinez, was working security at an arts center in the city when he was arrested. The suspect was reportedly working for a private security firm owned by a former county sheriff. “Police believe the hand belongs to the woman who was found dead in the creek,” according to The Pueblo Chieftain. The Pueblo Chieftain reported the woman had been decapitated. Police in southern Colorado discovered a severed human hand in the pocket of a homicide suspect following his arrest in connection with the death of a woman found in a creek in Pueblo.Īccording to media reports, the woman’s body was found in Fountain Creek on Jan.

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