Two Arrested In Murder Of Teen Found In Green River

FEDERAL WAY, WA — Detectives with the King County Sheriff's Office have arrested two men they believe killed a 16-year-old boy near Auburn last month. The body of Juan Carlos Con Guzman was found by two fishermen along the Green River on September 10th.

Court documents filed Thursday identify the 20-year-old suspect as Carlos Iraheta-Vega. Investigators say he admitted to participating in the killing during an interview with detectives. He was arrested in Federal Way on Tuesday.

A statement of probable cause says Iraheta-Vega and another man went to a secluded location and beat Con Guzman with a baseball bat and attacked him with a machete, then threw his body in the river. According to detectives, the suspects later burned their clothes and the baseball bat then hid the machete.

On Wednesday, investigators learned the whereabouts of a second suspect, a 28-year-old man, and deployed a SWAT team to a Winco store on Southwest Campus Drive around noon.

Sgt. Ryan Abbott says the SWAT team found the suspect in the parking lot and threw flashbangs to distract him, but he ran down a nearby embankment. At the bottom, more SWAT team members were waiting. Abbott says the man put his hands up and was on his knees when he pulled a handgun from his waistband. A SWAT officer fired a shot at him, but he was not hit. The man threw the gun and laid down and officers moved in to arrest him. Since a shot was fired, the Valley Investigative Team will review the incident per I-940 rules.

The second suspect will likely have a first court appearance on Thursday afternoon. Investigators say there are no outstanding suspects.