Santeria priest now charged in 2004 death of S. Florida man

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By Eliot Kleinberg | Palm Beach Post

Lester Cepero told detectives six years ago that gunmen beat him and left him in a field south of Miami before they took Francisco Fernandez to Palm Beach County and executed him.

Cepero lied, authorities now say.

The 39-year-old Hialeah man, a suspected drug merchant and a reported high priest of Santeria, is being held without bond in the Palm Beach County Jail, charged with Fernandez's Feb. 10, 2004, murder west of Delray Beach.

Read the full story at MiamiHerald.com

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