Suspect Who Ripped Off FBI Agent Caught, No Sign Of Accomplice

By Melissa Keeney

Greenville, SC May. 08, 2008

It took more than a week and a half, but Greenville Police say they’ve got their man.  23 year old Elmer Cespedes Orozco turned himself in to Lexington, NC authorities Wednesday night.  “People were working a lot of long hours tracking this person and locating him,” says Corporal Jason Rampey with Greenville Police.  Working off tips, the police department was able to track Orozco down.  When investigators questioned him, according to Rampey, Orozco confessed to being one of two men to rob and FBI agent outside Greenville’s Peace Center April 27.  “Unbeknownst to him, she was an off-duty agent,” Rampey says.

Shots were fired in the incident, but Rampey says, Orozco was not injured.  According to police, that means his accomplice might have taken a bullet.  It’s another possible link between this case and that of a man found dead in Laurens County Tuesday.  In that case, the male victim died of a gunshot wound.  The death also fits the same time frame as the Greenville robbery.  The coroner says the victim was wearing a camoflauge jacked, just as one of the robbery suspects were the night of that crime.  “Common sense would dictate that given the amount of time the body has been there, and that this person died of a gunshot wound, we believe it’s a possibility,” says Rampey.

Because of the victim’s badly decomposed body, it could be weeks before investigators know for sure.  For now, Orozco is being held at the Greenville Detention Center and is cooperating.  Police have yet to find the cash, credit cards, and government cell phone he and his accomplice are accused of stealing.  The only piece of evidence, a getaway car, was found crushed in a salvage yard.  “They were trying to conceal the vehicle to prevent being caught.”