BRISTOL, Conn. — A man arrested in Connecticut in connection with the murder case against former tight end was sent to Massachusetts on Friday,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and investigators found a car they had been seeking.
Also on Friday, a in Florida. He was identified as Ernest Wallace, 41.
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A judge in Bristol on Friday ordered Carlos Ortiz turned over to Massachusetts authorities.
Investigators arrested Ortiz, 27, in Bristol on Wednesday as part of the inquiry into the June 17 slaying of Odin Lloyd.
Hernandez faces six criminal charges, including first-degree murder, in the slaying of Lloyd near Hernandez's home in North Attleborough, Mass. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.
Ortiz was charged in Connecticut as a fugitive from justice. His public defender, Alfonzo Sirica, declined to comment about the case.
Also Friday, Massachusetts authorities said law enforcement officers recovered a car that is linked to a third man they have connected to Lloyd's killing.
North Attleborough police and the Bristol County district attorney's office said a 2012 Chrysler 300 they were seeking had been found,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Authorities revealed Thursday night that they were seeking Wallace, who they said should be considered armed and dangerous. Wallace was last seen driving the silver Chrysler with Rhode Island tags.
As the murder case led investigators to Hernandez's hometown of Bristol, people there remembered him as a fun-loving teenager at Bristol Central High School.
Some recalled him struggling with the death of his father, Dennis, in 2006 but remaining determined to become a pro athlete,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], spending hours working out before and after school. As Bristol police assist Massachusetts investigators, the community has been left to ponder the legal troubles of the hometown hero with the $40 million pro contract and a new family of his own.
A former high school teammate,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Andrew Ragali, 24, said Hernandez is not the troubled street hood he has seen portrayed on television.
"You could maybe say he was immature, but he wasn't a gang-banger at all," Ragali said. "I think when he went to college things might have changed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hanging around with the wrong people, but in high school, he wasn't like that at all."
Police arrested Hernandez Wednesday at his Massachusetts mansion and charged the 23-year-old with orchestrating Lloyd's execution-style shooting, allegedly because the victim had talked to the wrong people at a nightclub.
A judge denied Hernandez' bail appeal Thursday in a Massachusetts courtroom,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where a prosecutor said a Hummer belonging to Hernandez turned up an ammunition clip matching the caliber of casings found at the scene of Lloyd's killing.
Hernandez's lawyer argued his client is not a risk to flee and the case against him is circumstantial.
On June 16, the night before the slaying, a prosecutor said, Hernandez texted two unidentified friends and asked them to hurry to Massachusetts from Connecticut.
A few minutes later, he texted Lloyd to tell him he wanted to get together, the prosecutor said. Authorities say the three picked up Lloyd about 2:30 a.m. ET June 17, drove him to an industrial park near Hernandez's home and shot him five times. They have not said who fired the shots.
Aaron and his older brother D.J. Hernandez each were Connecticut's high school player of the year, although they played several years apart at Bristol Central.
Aaron would often visit his brother at the University of Connecticut, and at one point verbally committed to follow D.J. and play for UConn himself. But Aaron signed instead with University of Florida, where he became an All-American.

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