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A Guatemalan man has pleaded guilty to killing a taxicab driver from Connecticut.

The Putnam D.A. says 28-year-old Santos Vasquez-Ramirez entered his plea in Putnam Court on Wednesday.

The victim was 66-year-old Aurlio Orbez, of Danbury.

Authorities say he picked up the suspect near the Brewster train station last December. Orbez’s cab was found abandoned at the Purdy’s Train Station four days later. His body was recovered the next day from the Croton Falls Reservoir.

Officials say that Vasquez-Ramirez was living in the country illegally. He was arrested outside his home in the Town of Pawling several days later.

Vasquez-Ramirez admitted to an altercation with Orbez over a past unpaid fare and strangled him. He faces 21 years to life in prison when he is sentenced in August.

He faces deportation once he is released from prison.

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