PALM BAY, Fla. – The young man police say dumped two suitcases stuffed with human remains in the tall grass at the Compound is now facing a murder charge, too.
For the second time since last Saturday, Lucas Jones, 19, was arrested and brought to the Brevard County jail.
“Go head and bring up Lucas Jones,” Judge Thomas Brown said to start initial court proceedings Thursday.
In the jail courtroom, Jones looked at your Palm Bay Community Correspondent James Sparvero’s camera, raised his eyebrows, and shook his head just before Brown ruled to keep the teen in jail, this time without a bond.
“You’ve now been arrested on a new charge of murder,” Brown said.
To this point, a police affidavit has been publicly released to back up charges against Jones like abusing a dead body, but a new affidavit Thursday afternoon still wasn’t available, so we don’t know yet how police say Jones killed Colie Daniel.
Jones and Daniel, 28, lived close to one another in Indialantic, and back on March 20, Jones’ girlfriend told police she saw Daniel at Jones’ house in Jones’ bed, but she wasn’t sure whether he was either sleeping or unconscious.
When police found the suitcases, they said along with the remains, which took days to confirm were Daniel’s, a package with Jones’ name on it was in one too.
Police said they also found a knife in a suitcase, which was the same kind as another knife they found at Jones’ house, which police said had blood stains in it.
The new murder has revitalized the debate over finally developing Palm Bay’s Compound which has become infamous for finding dead bodies.