TAVARES – Authorities have arrested and charged two men with breaking into gravesites and stealing the heads of four corpses at Greenwood Cemetery in Mount Dora for ritualistic ceremonies on Dec. 6.
It was the modern science of DNA – not witchcraft – that led to a confession and the grisly discovery of remains in one of the men’s homes.
Investigators say it was genetic evidence on a cigar that led to the arrest of Brian Montalvo Tolentino, 43, of Davenport. Practitioners of Santeria black magic often leave offerings of cigars, coins, fruit, candy and slain chickens.
Tolentino’s genetic information was in the state’s DNA crime data base, but it is not clear why.
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