Pinal County deputies arrest 4 in case of body found in toolbox

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The body of an unidentified man was found in a toolbox near Kearny in January 2011.
Photographer: Pinal County Sheriff's Office
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(From top left clockwise) Paul Goga, Gilbert Evora, Joshua McGuire, Javier Santos
Photographer: Pinal County Sheriff's Office
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Posted: 11/02/2012

FLORENCE, AZ - Pinal County sheriff's officials say they've made four arrests in connection with the death of an unidentified man whose body was found nearly two years ago in a partially buried tool box near Kearny.

Sheriff's spokesman Tim Gaffney says a hunter found the truck tool box containing the decomposing remains in January 2011.

Gaffney said Friday that detectives discovered the man was lured to a Kearny home by two men, Paul Goga and Gilbert Evora, who planned to kill him after a dispute over a drug debt. Two other men, Javier Santos and Joshua McGuire, were then enlisted to dispose of the body in the desert.

Detectives are still working to identify the victim.

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