Cristian Rangel, Yazmani Quezada-Ortiz, and Jesus Bejar-Avila (left to right). Christian Rangel, Jesus Bejar-Avila, and Yazmani Quezada-Ortiz left their jobs at the Lake Union Wholesale Florist in Seattle on Dec. 12 last year and never returned. In March their bodies were found in a remote area of Rainier Nursery in Kent. Now King County prosecutors say they have the man who buried them there.Alberto Avila-Cardenas is a 36-year-old Mexican citizen living in the United States illegally. As The Seattle Times
reports, prosecutors allege that he worked with Rangel, Quezada-Ortiz, and Avila-Bejar at the floral warehouse until he quit in May 2010, and that family members say there was “tension” between him and at least one of the dead men.At some point that tension turned violent when Avila-Cardenas allegedly kidnapped the three victims and drove them to the nursery, where he tied their hands, shot each in the head, then buried the bodies.Avila-Cardenas was arrested in December not long after the men went missing, and was charged with being an alien in possession of a gun, which they had found in the rafters of his house. That gun had blood in the barrel. And when a nursery worker stumbled across the bodies of three men in March and told police, they matched the DNA of one of the men to Avila-Cardenas’ gun. Now he’s being held without bail at the Federal Detention Center in Sea-Tac awaiting transfer to King County Jail, where his bail will be $10 million.The Times quotes Mariana Bejar, Bejar-Avila’s sister, saying she didn’t think anyone had bothered to look for her brother. “I’m speechless. We didn’t know if they were working on the case,” the Lakewood woman said.Meanwhile, King County Sheriff’s Spokesperson John Urquhart says there may still be other suspects at large.Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.