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A former mixed martial arts fighter known as “The Panther” was finally busted for a 2011 torture murder after spending years on the lam, according to a report.

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Ariel Gandulla, 51, was nabbed in Canada for his alleged role in the slaying of Camilo Salazar and was hauled back to Miami on Tuesday, the Miami Herald reported.

The June 2011 crime was allegedly ordered at the behest of supermarket honcho Manuel Marin, who believed Salazar, 43, was having an affair with his wife, the outlet reported.

Marin allegedly instructed boxing promoter Robert Isaac to recruit Gandula and another MMA fighter, Alexis Vila Perdomo, to commit the crime.

Salazar was beaten, his genitals torched and his throat slit, the Herald reported.

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More info needed. How’s they catch him after all those years?
Did they know who it was or was it dna that trapped him?
Story’s a little lacking in detail.....
From another source:
In April 2018, prosecutors charged Gandulla with second-degree murder and kidnapping. He was linked to the crime by a fingerprint on the victim’s car, and cellphone records, according to an arrest warrant.

Marin himself was a fugitive for years, living in Spain before he was captured and extradited to South Florida.

Miami-Dade police detectives also have arrested another former MMA fighter and Cuban boxer, Alexis Vila Perdomo, and his associate Roberto Isaac. Both are jailed, and their trials are set to begin next month.

Gandulla is expected to plead guilty and testify against Vila and Isaac, lawyers revealed in court earlier this month.

A native of Cuba, Gandulla came to Miami in 1994. As an MMA fighter, he started 4-0, a promising beginning for a fighter trained in judo and Greco-Roman wrestling. But his career fizzled and he wound up with an 8-9 record.

The year after the Salazar murder, Gandulla fled to Vancouver, Canada, where he also fought MMA bouts.

Miami-Dade homicide detectives had been looking to arrest Gandulla for months. But U.S. authorities initially resisted allowing him to return from Canada because if he was acquitted, Cuba would not accept him back on a deportation.

Eventually, Gandulla agreed to return to the United States voluntarily, and federal authorities allowed him into the country under a special parole program.

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What.. what kind of Supermarkets do they have in Florida? I can't say I've ever looked at a supermarket owner as a figure who can order peoples' deaths. And what kind of promoter sends fighters to commit murder?
"Alright kid, Big Louie over at the Cost Saver Market wants this bum dead. Beat him down and torch his balls and we're in the big leagues! Do this right and we might even get some work from the Quick-E Mart! Sky's the limit, kid!"
 
The former owner of Presidente Supermarkets, Manuel Marin, has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killing of Camilo Salazar.

On March 30, 2023, a jury found Marin guilty of manslaughter, which was a lesser charge than second-degree murder, and guilty of kidnapping. The judge adjudicated Marin guilty of criminal conspiracy to commit kidnapping and aggravated battery without a weapon.

The judge sentenced Marin to 30 years for manslaughter, 15 years for conspiracy to commit kidnapping or aggravated battery, and life in prison for kidnapping.

Marin was accused in a murder-for-hire plot that killed Camilo Salazar, whose body was found partially burned on a dirt road in the Florida Everglades in 2011. Salazar allegedly had an affair with Marin’s wife, and Marin is accused of hiring men to kill Salazar after finding out, WTVJ reported. Marin was charged with second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit second-degree murder and kidnapping.

Investigators said Marin fled the country shortly after Salazar’s body was found, WSVN reported. In the affidavit of probable cause, police said that Jennifer Marin tried to report her husband missing after he failed to come home on June 4, 2011. On June 8, Jennifer Marin received a call from her husband from an overseas exchange.

Marin was arrested in Spain and had his first appearance in a Florida court in Oct. 2018.

Two other men were convicted for Salazar's murder and are currently in prison.

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