Police: DJ Kills Teen, Drives Body Around

Police: DJ Kills Teen, Drives Body Around
Police Say Boyfriend Killed Girl, Confessed To Police


DORAL, Fla. -- A South Florida disc jockey has been charged with murder in the death of an FIU freshman after he drove to the Miami-Dade Police Department in Doral with the dead victim in his car, police said.

According to investigators, 30-year-old Juan Carlos Portieles confessed that he choked his girlfriend to death during an argument. He then told officers her body was inside his car parked in the police parking lot, investigators said.

Portieles also admitted that he drove around for hours with the victim's body in the passenger seat before turning himself in to police, according to investigators.

The victim was identified as 18-year-old Jaclyn Torrealba, a recent graduate of Braddock Senior High in Miami.

School friend Alberto Muñoz told WPLG-TV that Sunday night he received text messages that Torrealba was missing.

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