PROSECUTORS say a porn star and his girlfriend created a phony alibi to avoid arrest after he allegedly killed his wealthy gay lover in what officials call “a love affair gone wrong.”
David Enrique Meza, 25, and his girlfriend, Taylor Marie Langston, 20, both pleaded not guilty to various charges this week.
Meza is charged with interstate or foreign domestic violence resulting in murder and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Couple ... David Enrique Meza and Taylor Marie Langston. Picture: FacebookSource:Supplied
Langston is also accused of conspiracy, as well as additional charges of obstruction of justice and making a false statement to a police officer.
The couple has a newborn baby together and in California.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexandra Foster said Meza was also involved in a homosexual relationship with the stabbing victim, 52-year-old Jake Clyde Merendino.
Killed ... David Enrique Meza and Taylor Marie Langston are accused of stabbing 52-year-old Jake Clyde Merendino. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
“It’s about a love affair gone wrong,” said Foster, referring to Merendino and Meza’s relationship.
Ms Foster claims that Meza called Merendino just a day after the elder Texas purchased a luxury oceanfront condo.
Meza allegedly produced Merendino’s handwritten will that made him the sole heir to the victim’s sizeable estate.
“He stood to inherit from a will, he stood to inherit as a beneficiary of the condominium in Rosarito, he stood to gain a significant amount from the death of his lover,” said Foster.
Meza and Langston claim they had been visiting a friend named “Joe” in Tijuana when Merendino was killed.
Love gone wrong ... David Enrique Meza had been seeing Jake Merendino for a few years. Picture: Facebook.Source:Supplied
Ms Foster said phone conversations and Facebook posts contradicted that alibi an that “Joe”, whose name is Jose Aguilera, told police that not only had he not seen the pair in more than a year but that he had a call from them a week before Merendino’s death asking him to lie for them.
Meza and Langston were arrested on Wednesday with Meza deemed a flight risk and remanded without bail. Langston was allowed out on $50,000 bail and will be forced to wear a GPS monitor and abide by a curfew
Ms Foster also revealed that Langston had received a restraining order against Meza last year after a domestic violence incident. At that time, a judge ordered Meza not to physically attack or harm his live-in partner, though they continued to live together.
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