Pedro Lora-Pena (Photo: ECPO)
NEWARK — A 42-year-old Belleville man has been arrested on charges he killed his girlfriend, who was found dead Tuesday in the trunk of her car in Newark, prosecutors said.
Pedro Lora-Pena was charged with murder, moving or concealing human remains and weapons offenses after Diana Boggio, 41, also of Belleville.
Boggio’s body was found in her Honda Accord on Verona Avenue in Newark Tuesday morning, according to acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray.
Boggio was reported missing to Belleville police around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, prosecutors said.
A preliminary investigation found she was slain in another location and left in an industrial area of Newark, near McCarter Highway, Betpark prosecutors said.
Missing Belleville woman found dead in trunk of her car
While authorities said there was no evidence Boggio was killed in Newark, the prosecutor’s office would not say where the killing took place.
Members of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force, Newark police and Belleville police were on Verona Avenue late Tuesday morning. The Honda was later towed from the scene.
The prosecutor’s office declined to say what led investigators to the car. An autopsy is expected to determine her exact cause of death.
Prosecutors did not disclose a possible motive in the slaying.
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