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Tonight police still don't know who killed 26 year old San Pedro resident Alfredo Cowo on Monday morning.  He was executed by a lone gunman as he sat in his golf cart with his girlfriend on Monday morning.  

It happened in downtown San Pedro - where there’s all kinds of surveillance cameras.  
And, today, the commander for Eastern Division CIB said they detained a suspect early this morning.  

ASP Alejandro Cowo - OC - CIB Eastern Div.
"I know that we are looking for a suspect I understand that he was detained sometime last night about 2 or 3 in the morning so we are waiting from there to see how we will proceed with this matter."

Jules Vasquez
"Is the suspect someone who has any history of encounters with law enforcement?"

ASP Alejandro Cowo
"Not that I know but we are trying to confirm anything in his background so that we can establish what is the motive behind that killing there."

Reporter
"Were you able to secure any footage?"

ASP Alejandro Cowo
"We have several footage that were around the area that assisted us in in the investigation."

Reporter
"And then to the allegations or suspicion even that the police may have had some involvement."

ASP Alejandro Cowo
"The investigation at this moment is not directing us to any information of any police involvement so far."

Jules Vasquez
"Are investigators looking towards something from his past or something from drug rivalries on the island? Or are you able to say which direction generally they are looking at?"

ASP Alejandro Cowo
"Well at this moment the investigation has not given us a motive as to why the incident happened. We are waiting to see what will be the outcome of the interview conducted on the person that is being detained.â€￾

Late reports are that police are gathering evidence to implicate this suspect and could charge the him as early as tomorrow.  We’ll keep following it.  

And while many are looking at police and the fact that Cowo had been leading a criminal prosecution against them - the fact is he has a long and very colourful criminal history - and many crimes he's been convicted of involve police.

Cowo had been charged 43 times - his rap sheet is seven and half pages long.  He has 9 convictions, including two for assaulting a police officer - dating back as far as 2011, and one for bribing a police officer.  Again, these are convictions.

At the time of his murder, he had 27 pending cases including 6 counts of assaulting a police officer,  2 counts of aggravated assault, along with firearm offenses, and a drug trafficking charge.  The most recent charge dates back four months to September of 2017.