The man accused of stabbing and leaving his girlfriend, for dead in the basement of a Barberton home will not have bail according to Summit County Judge Christine Croce. Marcos Huerta Garcia has pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder, felonious assault, aggravated robbery and gross abuse of a corpse and was in court earlier this morning.
On September 4, Barberton police received a missing person’s report for 26 year old Yesli Yanet Vazquez Cruz. When they arrived at a home in the 1500 block of Wooster Road they found Cruz’s body with multiple stab wounds in the basement.
35 year old Huerta-Garcia is from the Mexican state of Guerrero and was arrested at the Arizona/Mexico border in an attempt to flee the country.