Brazilian police arrested a Cuban as a suspected murderer in the state of Minas Gerais this Thursday Brent Sikkemaa New York art gallery partner whose body was found in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
The body of gallery co-owner Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 75, was found with stab wounds by members of the Rio Fire Department on the night of January 15 in an apartment he owned in a wealthy neighborhood, according to the report Brazilian press .
In an interview with a local radio, the director of the Homicide Unit of the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police, Felipe Curi, confirmed that there was a suspect Alejandro Triana Trévez, 30 years old and of Cuban nationality.
According to a statement from the civil police, the detainee, against whom a provisional arrest warrant was issued, was located by police at a gas station between the cities of Uberlândia and Uberaba and was in possession of $3,000 (equivalent to more than 14,000 reais). .from Rio de Janeiro.
The alleged murderer would have traveled from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro to commit the crime, where He watched Sikkema's house for 14 hours before acting.
The Rio de Janeiro Homicide Commission said that images captured by surveillance cameras outside the Sikkema house facilitated the identification of the suspect, who was arrested in collaboration with the Federal Highway Police and the São Paulo Civil Police.
The Cuban stayed in the house for about 15 minutes and when he left he took off some gloves and put them in his pocket.according to surveillance cameras in the area.
After leaving the gallery owner's house The suspect returned to Sao Paulo and traveled to the neighboring state of Minas Gerais, where he was arrested.
Brent Sikkema's body was taken by firefighters to the Medical Legal Institute (IML) in central Rio for examination. The death of the artistic entrepreneur is being investigated by the Rio Homicide Squad.
Brent Sikkema founded the art gallery in 1991 under the name Wooster Gardens, based on its original location on Wooster Street in New York City. In 1999, the showroom was expanded and moved to its current location on 22nd Street in New York City. The art gallery hosts exhibitions of paintings, illustrations, installations, photographs and sculptures
As of the completion of this note, there is no further information available about the Cuban arrested in Brazil for the murder of the American gallery owner.