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A motorbike salesman arrested on suspicion of murder after his new co-worker disappeared last week has claimed he is being framed.


Steve Hlebo, 39, an employee of GP Sports motorbike shop in San Jose, California, was arrested on Saturday and charged with killing Kyle Myrick, 28, who was reported missing on Friday.
Police say Hlebo killed Myrick in a burned-out storage unit next to the bike shop just four days after Myrick started working there - but Hlebo now says he is being set up.


Speaking from jail earlier today, Hlebo said that somebody had been drugging his coffee 'for days' in order to keep him awake, meaning he was out driving in the hours after Myrick went missing.


He told NBC: 'I think they were putting it in intentionally so they could discredit me and pin the murder on me, essentially.'


According to reports, Myrick was last seen at GP Sports on Friday afternoon before going to perform a task with Hlebo, before he vanished.


Police were called out by concerned relatives on Friday, and say they found evidence of a crime scene in a boarded-up unit next to the main motorbike shop.


The unit was a storage facility used by GP Sports until it was gutted by a fire in 2014.


While officers have not yet found Myrick's body, they say there was enough evidence in the burned-out building to suggest a murder had taken place.


Hlebo said he left work between 5 and 6pm that day before going out for a drive until around 2am the following morning because he was unable to sleep.


When he arrived home, he says officers were waiting for him and arrested him at gunpoint before accusing him of the killing.


Police also impounded his white 2003 GMC Sierra 1500 truck which they believe was involved with the crime.

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Meanwhile Hlebo has not said who he believes is trying to frame him, or what possible motivation someone could have for doing so.


Speaking to Mercury News, he added that he has 'nothing against the guy [Myrick]', saying he has 'no idea' why he's in jail.


Myrick and Hlebo are believed to have worked for the same company for several years, but had only been at the same store for four or five days before Myrick vanished.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-worker-claims-drugged-order-set-murder.html
 
Hlebo said that somebody had been drugging his coffee 'for days' in order to keep him awake, meaning he was out driving in the hours after Myrick went missing.

That makes no sense whatsoever, I can understand someone putting him to sleep so they could keep up with him and then know exactly where he was when THEY committed a murder so as to plant evidence that he was there, but to keep him awake and driving could possibly give him an alibi, he could have driven somewhere surrounded by lots of people but THEY wouldn't know because they didn't know where he was! I think you're talking out of your ass, Mr. Hlebo.
 
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So... he didn't notice that they were "drugging his coffee" for DAYS until after he was accused of murder. And what kind of drugs does one put in coffee to force someone drive around all day? Extra caffeine and a video of Too Fast Too Furious?
 
I wonder what the motive may be. This guy is crazy if he thinks anyone would believe his story of being kept up for days on end so he would be to irrational to know what he could have done. I mean what?
If I were to infer anything from this idiots statements it would be he was on a bender either meth or coke and killed his co worker over something trivial. Stashed the body in the burned out shed and took off thinking no one would miss the guy for a few days and he could work out an alibi by Monday morning. Fortunately, the family was on the ball and didn't wait that long.
 
The dumb-ass probably didn't think he'd get caught, so when he did, made up this horse shit on the fly (no pun intended) - because he's a dumb-ass. And he's gonna stick to it no matter what. Because you know how dumb-asses are - they think they're smarter than everybody else.

What a dumb-ass.
 
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So... he didn't notice that they were "drugging his coffee" for DAYS until after he was accused of murder. And what kind of drugs does one put in coffee to force someone drive around all day? Extra caffeine and a video of Too Fast Too Furious?

Meth...Meth goes down pretty good in coffee....but why? Why would anyone just dump meth in your coffee like it was sugar, make you drive around. Fast and the furious...fast and the dead. Sounds like a death ride to me.
 
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As Steve Hlebo was arraigned in Kyle Myrick's disappearance, prosecutors revealed that a bloody crime scene containing a severed ear prompted a homicide investigation and murder charge even as the search for Myrick's body continues.

A police statement of facts released by the Santa Clara District Attorney's Office details how Hlebo, Myrick's co-worker at GP Sports in the Cambrian neighborhood, told detectives the two mechanics got into a fight while they were working on all-terrain vehicles. The court document also contends that Hlebo told an unspecified relative that he killed Myrick and dumped the body in the ocean.


Murder suspect Steve Douglas Hlebo of Los Altos speaks from custody at the Santa Clara County Main Jail on Jan. 25, 2016 and denied involvement in the presumed killing of motorbike shop co-worker Kyle Myrick in San Jose. (Robert Salonga)

An organized search for the 28-year-old Myrick entered its fourth day Wednesday with his family and friends continuing to comb the area surrounding the shop and parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains believed to be familiar to Hlebo. Shane Myrick, the victim's older brother, sought volunteers to help.

"Obviously his parents are suffering right now looking at some of the evidence. Whatever it takes for Kyle to come home, that's what we want," Myrick said.

Fighting through tears, he added: "Any and all volunteers, please, please come out and help us bring Kyle home."

Meanwhile, Hlebo, 39, of Los Altos, briefly appeared in a San Jose courtroom Wednesday to answer for a murder charge in Kyle Myrick's disappearance Friday and presumed death. He stood silently in a red jumpsuit reserved for high-security inmates, his only utterance being a "Yes" when asked a procedural question by Judge Allison Danner, after which he was led back to custody at the Santa Clara County Jail, where he is being held without bail.

Accompanying the arraignment was the release of the statement of facts that formed the basis of the charge against Hlebo. Written by San Jose police Detective Sgt. Paul Hamblin and Detective Jason Tanner, the account states that Friday afternoon, an employee of the motorbike shop at Camden and Union avenues assigned Hlebo with assembling two ATVs in the lot behind the store and sent Myrick to help him.

The employee later went out to check on them and found a gate to the lot was atypically locked. Myrick was nowhere to be seen, and Hlebo said he did not know where Myrick was. When the employee checked on them a second time, police say, he saw Hlebo's white GMC Sierra pickup truck with the license plate 6041R1 backed up to the rear door of an adjacent building that was heavily damaged by a 2014 fire and virtually abandoned. Hlebo reportedly gave a "nonsensical" answer when asked about why his truck was there.


Then, when the employee told Hlebo and other employees to enter the burned-out building to look for Myrick, Hlebo was reluctant and contended there were "ghosts in there," police said. When the store closed at 6 p.m., Hlebo left, and the employee and another co-worker entered the building and in a small 5-foot-by-5-foot storage room found a "great deal" of fresh blood on the walls and called police.

Responding officers also found blood stains suggesting that someone had been dragged to where Hlebo's truck had been parked, police said. They also found a severed ear in a pool of blood on the floor.

Later that night, police staked out Hlebo's home in Los Altos and waited until he arrived around 2 a.m. to enter the home, arrest Hlebo, and look for Myrick, who was not found. A search warrant served on the truck found "a large amount of blood" in the vehicle's cab, police said.

After Hlebo's arraignment, deputy district attorney Sumerle Davis said the evidence, despite no body being located, was strong enough for the murder charge.

"Our hearts go out to Mr. Myrick's family," she said.

Brian Davis, whose son has been best friends with Myrick for over a decade, said he knew something was wrong when Myrick didn't make his routine visit to Davis' home on the evening of the disappearance.

"We still need some closure," Davis said. "We need to find him."
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-co...e-bloody-crime-scene-detailed-suspect-charged
 
...the employee and another co-worker entered the building and in a small 5-foot-by-5-foot storage room found a "great deal" of fresh blood on the walls and called police.

Responding officers also found blood stains suggesting that someone had been dragged to where Hlebo's truck had been parked, police said. They also found a severed ear in a pool of blood on the floor.

A search warrant served on the truck found "a large amount of blood" in the vehicle's cab, police said.


Yet the idiot insists he's not guilty. :rolleyes: And smiles for pictures while in jail.

What a dumb-assed asshole.
 
... Because you are so fucking intriguing :rolleyes: that people feel the need to conspire against you :finger:

You are giving yourself way to much credit Mr.Hlebo :D you're an idiot.
 
I can't wait to hear what the motive was for this one. You know it's gonna be stupid. Probably argued about spark plugs or something.
 
Meanwhile, Steve Hlebo continues to sit in jail, gleefully proclaiming, "I didn't do it."

After he's convicted, I'm sure he'll still be saying the same thing.
 
https://www.losaltosonline.com/news...esident-guilty-in-2016-motorcycle-shop-murder
12 April 2019
After nearly two days of deliberation, a jury on Thursday (April 11) found Los Altos resident Steve Hlebo, 42, guilty of murdering Kyle Myrick, 28, of San Jose, according to the Santa Clara County Public Portal.
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Myrick’s family and friends waited more than two years for his alleged killer’s indictment, which occurred Aug. 30. Hlebo originally pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder, and he was found guilty of second-degree murder by the jury at the conclusion of the trial, which started March 26, according to Sumerle Davis, the Santa Clara County prosecutor assigned to the case.

Hlebo is scheduled to return to court June 14 for sentencing. Davis stated that the sentence for second-degree murder as prescribed by law is 15 years to life.
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