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Husband of American woman reported missing in Spain arrested in | |
Florida, FBI says | |
By Denise Royal, CNN | |
Updated: | |
5:43 PM EDT, Mon May 6, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
The husband of Ana Maria Knezevich Henao, a woman who was reported | |
missing while in Spain in February, has been arrested in Florida, the | |
FBI confirmed Monday. | |
David Knezevich, 36, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is in federal custody | |
for his alleged involvement in his wife’s kidnapping on or about | |
February 2, 2024, according to FBI spokesperson James Marshall. | |
His arrest was made without incident Saturday by the Diplomatic | |
Security Service and the FBI at Miami International Airport, Marshall | |
said. Knezevich has not yet had his initial appearance in Miami Federal | |
Court, according to court records. | |
The Spanish National Police, US Customs and Border Protection, the | |
Diplomatic Security Service, and the FBI are continuing their | |
investigations. | |
Knezevich Henao, 40, was reported missing in February after she failed | |
to meet a friend in Madrid. | |
Her brother, Juan Felipe Henao, told CNN she was supposed to take a | |
train to Barcelona with a friend on February 5, but his sister never | |
showed up at the Madrid station. | |
Knezevich Henao’s friend, Sanna Rameau, said she last exchanged | |
messages with her on February 2. | |
Rameau told CNN she is happy and emotional after learning of the | |
arrest. “I’m hoping we are going to get some answers,” she said. | |
Around the time she went missing, Rameau said she received a WhatsApp | |
message from Knezevich Henao which read: “I met someone wonderful!!� | |
He has a summer house about 2h (hours) from Madrid. We are going there | |
now and I will spend a few days there. Signal is spotty. I’ll call | |
you when I get back.” | |
The text message, seen by CNN, added the man had approached her on the | |
street a day earlier while she was walking. “Amazing connection.� | |
Like I never had before,” the text ended. | |
Around the time she went missing, someone spray-painted the lens of two | |
security cameras of the apartment building where Knezevich Henao was | |
staying in Madrid’s upscale Salamanca neighborhood, the building’s | |
superintendent told CNN. | |
The cameras disabled were at the entrance of the building and near the | |
elevator, the superintendent said. It’s unclear if the incident is | |
related to her disappearance. | |
The building superintendent and two other people with knowledge of the | |
situation told CNN that police had entered Knezevich Henao’s | |
apartment on February 12 with judicial authorization. | |
Her brother and Rameau told CNN they had been in contact, separately, | |
with Knezevich in the days after her disappearance, and he told them he | |
was in Serbia. CNN attempted to reach Knezevich in February but did not | |
get a reply. | |
Two people who know the situation told CNN Knezevich Henao initially | |
rented the apartment in Madrid from January 5 to February 5. She then | |
asked to extend the booking for another month – until March 5. | |
CNN reached out to Spanish police at the time, but they declined to | |
comment because they are still investigating. | |
The website of a computer services company in South Florida, EOX | |
Technology Solutions, lists David Knezevich as the CEO and managing | |
director. It says David Knezevich is Serbian and Knezevich Henao is a | |
native of Colombia and a project manager. CNN has contacted the company | |
but did not immediately get through to anyone. | |
The US Embassy in Madrid had no comment on the case in February and | |
cited privacy restrictions when asked by CNN. | |
CNN’s Pau Mosquera, Al Goodman and Carlos Suarez contributed to this | |
report. | |
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