GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — A Green Bay man was formally charged Jan. 21 with mutilating a corpse.
Jeisaac Rodriguez-Garcia is accused of burning the body of Jason Mendez Ramos. Ramos' body was found near the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus in September. According to a criminal complaint issued Jan. 21, the victim’s body had been found on a UWGB designated trail. The body had been set on fire with gasoline.
The complaint said security video near the area where Ramos’ body was found, as well as an anonymous tip, led investigators to a van that was found in the driveway of a residence where Jeisaac Rodriguez-Garcia was living. Statements in the criminal complaint indicated that Rodriguez-Garcia had borrowed the van from the vehicle’s owner.
According to the criminal complaint, Green Bay Police Detective David Graf said he reviewed a report from the Wisconsin State Crime Lab which stated that Rodriguez-Garcia's DNA was found on a sock that was found at the original crime scene, as well as a blood stain found inside the van. Rodriguez-Garcia had provided his DNA during one of his interviews with police.
The detective also stated in the criminal complaint that Rodriguez-Garcia had been interviewed twice by authorities and both times he, “provided false and contradicting information as to his whereabouts, contacts, and activities on September 27, 2021 into the early hour of September 28, 2021 when the victim's body was found on fire.”
The complaint states that Rodriguez-Garcia at times claimed to be in the Wisconsin Dells and then at home during the time period in question, but authorities in the criminal complaint said his cell phone locations, according to phone records, showed differently. The complaint states Rodriguez-Garcia’s cell phone data was located in the same areas where the van was seen on video from September 27 into September 28.
The criminal complaint says Rodriguez-Garcia was interviewed for a third time, saying that his sock could have been in the van because he did work for the vehicle’s owner last summer and the sock could have been left there. After that, the complaint says an officer read Rodriguez-Garcia his Miranda rights and explained that he was under arrest for mutilating a corpse.
Rodriguez-Garcia has denied his involvement in the crime. He is being held on a $10,000 bond.
