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Alleged Burglar Accomplice To Court
posted (April 22, 2013)
Last week, Friday, 7News told you about 21 year-old Ryan Lozano, the young man who police shot to death after they caught him burglarizing a home. Well, the man who police believe to be his accomplice is at prison tonight.

He is 33 year-old Lenny Bennett Benguche. According to Ladyville police, on Thursday at around noon, when they responded to a burglary in Los Lagos, they saw Benguche hiding behind the house. Lozano reportedly exited the house a few minutes after police arrived.

Police say that they cautioned Lozano, but according to them, he advanced in a threatening manner whilst armed with a knife and a crowbar. So, they shot him in the midsection - An account which his family and neighbors dispute.

They detained Benguche and transported Lozano to the KHMH, but he died the next day due his extensive internal injuries.

Benguche was charged with burglary, and today, he was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. He was denied bail and remanded to prison until June 7, 2013.

Lozano's mother has since spoken out publicly because she doesn't believe that the police justifiably use of deadly force when they shot her son – reportedly with an AR-15 rifle.

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