A MAN has been arrested and charged with murder in connection to the disappearance of Madeline Pantoja after her remains were discovered on the side of a road, according to local reports.
Mario Juan Chacon, 24, was taken in after the 10-day search for Midland, Texas, woman Madeline, 21, came to a tragic end on Saturday.
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Midland police reportedly discovered the remains just a few miles east of a road early Saturday morning and notified her family, local NBC affiliate KWES reports.
Chacon was arrested and charged with murder of the first degree, according to a City of Midland press release seen by the local outlet.
Her cause of death remains unclear and an autopsy will be performed in Dallas County, the station reports.
Madeline’s family said that Chacon was Madeline’s ex-boyfriend, and the two had broken up just before she disappeared, ABC affiliate KMID reports.
The tragic discovery comes after Pantoja was last seen on May 10 when she had dinner with a close friend and was dropped off at her apartment.
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That night, at around 1am, the neighbors living underneath Madeline reported hearing a screaming argument and said surveillance cameras caught a pickup truck zooming from the house, the family told multiple outlets.
The next day, Madeline’s friend alerted her family that something was wrong when she wouldn’t respond to her texts or calls.
One of Madeline’s other siblings went to her apartment to check on her, but the door was locked and no one was answering.
They called Midland police who eventually broke in and found her phone, keys, and dog all left with her car in the parking lot.
Her brother Christian previously spoke to The U.S. Sun and said this behavior was extremely out of the ordinary for his sister.
“She loves her dog very much,” he said. “It’s like a daughter to her, so it’s extremely irregular for her to just leave everything behind.”
Christian said his sister was doing “perfect” and the two were looking forward to reconnecting the coming weekend to celebrate his college graduation.
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“If her car is still there and her keys and everything, then someone had to have driven,” Christian speculated. “She wouldn’t have made it far walking.”
The Midland Police Department has stressed to The U.S. Sun that this is a very active case, but has not provided any other details.
Family and friends gathered together to pray for Madeline before her 21st birthday passed on Thursday.
They had planned to pray the rosary every day at 7pm for Madeline’s safety before the tragic news of her passing.
“We’re just very desperate, we’re just begging God to help us get her back home,” Madeline’s good friend Karen Ramos told NBC affiliate KWES-TV.
“We’re just doing whatever we can to just get the most help we can from anywhere.”
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact MPD.
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