A day after remains believed to be those of a missing father and husband from North Jersey were discovered, we learn more about those charged with carjacking and kidnapping him.
Craig Arno, 44, and Jessica Kisby, 24, were arrested in a West Atlantic City motel last Friday. The duo are accused of carjacking and kidnapping Martin Caballero as he parked his car inside the Trump Taj Mahal on May 21.
Caballero, 47, was in Atlantic City with his wife and two adult daughters to celebrate a birthday. Missing for more than a week, a farmer came across remains believed to be of the man on Sunday. Officials are awaiting autopsy results to make a final confirmation.
His ATM card was used by a man believed to be Arno and his car torched in a Camden County parking lot. Kisby was captured on surveillance video buying gasoline and Arno had burns on his body when he was arrested, officials say.
Arno and Kisby both have had many run-ins with the law. Arno killed a woman while drag racing along City Avenue in Philadelphia when he was 16-years-old. He also spent time behind bars for fraud and theft, according to state and federal records.
Kisby, the mother of a 5-year-old girl, has been arrested three times in the past year. But those who know the Egg Harbor Township woman say she's been trying to get her life in order.
“She had just been telling me how she wanted to get her life together, get more involved with her daughter’s life,” neighbor Alisha Mathis said Monday. “It was just shock. I didn’t think of her being like that."
That shock is also being felt by neighbor Vicki Montalvo. "I’m really shocked because I’ve known Jessica for ten years. She was a good kid growing up."
Caballero's family had harsh words for the suspects, speaking out for the first time since their arrest.
"We don’t know how anybody can be so cold-hearted and do something like this to any human being," the man's niece Mariana Sanchez told NBC Philadelphia's Ted Greenberg in a phone interview.
Prosecutors have yet to announce a possible motive and say an upgrade in charges could come after an autopsy on Caballero is completed.
Both suspects remain jailed on $400,000 cash bail.
