SAN ANTONIO — Neighbors along the 2400 block of Basse Road on the north side were awakened by loud booms and the sight of federal agents on their street Wednesday morning—the result of a search warrant being executed in the same place where a man was allegedly tortured and killed more than a year ago.
Officials with the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) confirmed that two men wanted for murder were arrested when law enforcement raided a home where police believe the victim was killed, according to arrest records.
It remains unknown, however, why FBI agents were also at the scene.
A few days before the body of 30-year-old Joe Anthony Guerra was found on April 22, 2022, records state, a witness told police she went to the Basse Road house with Guerra so he could sell drugs to 23-year-old Esteban Flores. The witness apparently left the home without Guerra, investigators say, and by the time she returned he had vanished.
According to the arrest warrant, police later discovered cell phone video allegedly showing Flores and the other suspect, 29-year-old Paul Anthony Chacon, brutally torturing, assaulting and "waterboarding" Guerra inside the Basse Road home.
"The victim can be seen squirming in an attempt to breathe as he was being held down... another video shows the victim appeared to have blood on his face," the affidavit states.
Those videos were timestamped to the same day Guerra allegedly went to the house and then disappeared.
Cell phone data also shows Flores was near the location of the dump site where Guerra's body was reportedly left.
A year and seven months later, federal agents raided the same house where San Antonio police say officers arrested Flores and Chacon.
Asked if the two murder suspects were connected to the Wednesday raid, FBI officials told KENS 5 they couldn't comment on an ongoing case.
Meanwhile, Flores and Chacon both face murder charges in connection with Guerra's death. Bond for each was set at $250,000.
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