Man suspected of killing his wife in California is extradited to the US from Peru

Los Angeles — A man suspected of killing his wife and dumping her body in a Southern California forest has been extradited to the United States from Peru to face a murder charge, Los Angeles officials said.

Jossimar Cabrera, 36, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday night after being held in Peru since the end of Augustaccording to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He had surrendered there, Peru’s National Police said at the time.

The district attorney’s office has filed murder charges against him. It was not known Sunday whether he has an attorney.

Sheylla Cabrera’s body was found on August 16 at the bottom of an embankment in the Angeles National Forest, south of the city of Lancaster, in Los Angeles County, where the couple lived with their three young children. The 33-year-old man was reported missing on August 12.

Homicide detectives said they located surveillance footage of Jossimar Cabrera dragging a heavy object wrapped “in a large piece of material” from his apartment complex. When the victim’s body was discovered, it was wrapped in similar material, the sheriff’s department said.

The suspect had fled to Peru with the couple’s three children. Peru’s Foreign Ministry said Aug. 16 on social media that it had repatriated the children to Los Angeles to reunite with their mother’s family.

They were reported missing shortly after their mother was found dead.

The cause of Sheylla Cabrera’s death has not been revealed.