An illegal immigrant charged with beheading his girlfriend with a machete in front of onlookers in Minnesota was convicted on Thursday.
Alexis Saborit-Viltres, 44, beheaded America Mafalda Thayer, 55, with a machete while in a car at a residential intersection where several people witnessed the July 28, 2021, attack.
Thayer was found at the grisly crime scene with no head and naked from the waist up, authorities said in the criminal complaint.
Investigators say Saborit and his girlfriend, Thayer, got into an argument because Saborit refused to attend a court hearing with the man.
At about 2:30 p.m., a witness called 911 and reported a man “pulled a body out of his car, and it has no head” at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Spencer Street in Shakopee, according to investigators.
Another witness, who was inside her home, watched Saborit throw Thayer’s head on the ground, authorities said.
Saborit-Viltres illegally entered the U.S. through Texas in 2007 and two years later a New Orleans, Louisiana, judge ordered him removed from the U.S. after he didn’t show up for court, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed.
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ICE previously attempted to remove Saborit-Viltres to his home country of Cuba, though the agency couldn’t get the necessary travel documents from Cuba for his removal and released him under an order of supervision in 2012.
“Saborit-Viltres is a citizen of Cuba who is unlawfully present in the United States,” ICE spokesperson Shawn Neudauer said in July 2021. “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has not placed a detainer on Saborit-Vilres following his recent arrest for second-degree murder in Shakopee, Minnesota.”
Saborit-Viltres was arrested in Louisiana and convicted of two charges of domestic assault and one count of false imprisonment making him a felon, according to ICE’s records.
“Saborit-Viltres’s criminal history includes multiple convictions in Minnesota and Louisiana for domestic assault/abuse/battery, DUI, and fleeing a police officer,” Neudauer said. “He has pending charges for first-degree arson-dwelling, first-degree criminal damage to property, and obstruct legal process-interfere with peace officer stemming from a 2020 arrest in Scott County, Minnesota; he also has pending charges for murder, second degree (2021) based on his recent local arrest, also in Scott County.”
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He asked the court to reopen his immigration case in 2012, and officials upheld the first judge’s removal orders, according to ICE.
ICE records show Saborit-Viltres was arrested and convicted of domestic assault in a Minneapolis suburb in 2017 and given four months probation. A month later, he was convicted of a DUI in another suburban area and given 37 days probation.
He was convicted of obstructing the legal process and fleeing from police on foot; despite these being felony charges in Minnesota, he was issued one-day probation in May 2019, according to ICE.
He is scheduled for a sentencing hearing, and it’s anticipated that Saborit-Viltres will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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