Ex DEA agent found tied and strangled in Santiago

Santiago.- Unidentified assailants strangled an attorney and former member of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), inside his apartment in the city’s Los sector Los Garages.

Juan Diego Valerio, 65, was found Friday morning with his feet and hands tied by the maid Miriam Gomez inside his home in the condo Los Colegios.

Unconfirmed reports say Valerio was a U.S. citizen who also owned a law firm in an unspecified city in that country.

The suspects stole a 2006 Honda Accord, a TV and other belongings.

His neighbors said they suspect a woman with whom the victim had a romantic relationship, and to whom Pichardo had given a vehicle and then took it back.