Video shows police visit Farmington home where 11-year-old’s dead body was hidden in basement
FARMINGTON – Body camera footage released Tuesday shows town police officers who were responding to a noise complaint briefly speaking with a Connecticut couple at their condominium where authorities say they were hiding the body of the woman’s 11-year-old daughter who is believed to have been killed months earlier.
The interaction marked the only time officers made contact with the family during four calls to the Wellington Drive condominium between September 2024 and February 2025, Farmington Police Lt. Kyle A. Noddin said Tuesday.
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Police have said the brief visit likely took place after Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia’s mother, Karla Roselee Garcia, 29, and the woman’s boyfriend, Jonatan Abel Nanita, 30, abused and conspired to kill the 11-year-old girl.
The couple was charged with murder with special circumstances after the child’s remains were found in a plastic storage bin in New Britain on Oct. 8. Police suspect she starved to death in Farmington last year and that the remains were moved when the family relocated in March to New Britain.
According to an arrest warrant, police were twice called to the Farmington residence on Dec. 29 by neighbors who told authorities they heard someone scream, something heavy fall and Garcia yelling something like “stop” or “don’t.”
This picture of Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres-Garcia is among several at a memorial in New Britain where her remains were found. The 11-year-old is believed to have died in the fall of 2024 after enduring abuse and “malnourishment,” police said. (Christine Dempsey/Hearst Connecticut Media)
Body cam footage captured during the visit shows officers spoke with Garcia and Nanita for about four minutes before leaving the home. Garcia can be heard telling officers that she is pregnant and moody, but said she was all right, the footage shows.
“I’m at the end, so it’s difficult,” Garcia said of her pregnancy.
Nanita, who can be seen holding a child that he identified as his 3-year-old daughter, also told the officers that things were OK despite the noise complaint, according to the video.
“My wife’s pregnant so she just be having mood swings and I be trying to calm her down,” Nanita said, according to the footage. However, it does not appear Nanita and Garcia were ever married.
Garcia told officers the family had been living at the condo for nearly a year and had recently decided to move back to New Britain due to a series of noise complaints made by their neighbors.
“We always get complaints,” Garcia said. “They’ve complained since we first moved here. We’re actually moving … because of that.”
The arrest warrant shows the neighbors that shared a wall with the family told investigators they routinely heard yelling, cursing and things being thrown around the home.
Police have said officers never observed any signs of fighting or violence after responding to the noise complaints, but also said no one answered the door when officers made visits on Sept. 28, 2024, and on Feb. 2, 2025.
The neighbors, the warrant shows, also said they called the state Department of Children and Families to report possible abuse and neglect of Jacqueline’s younger sister because they often saw the girl taking out the garbage and carrying heavy bags of groceries.
Before leaving the home, one of the two officers who responded to the noise complaint can be heard asking the couple if the 3-year-old was their only child. Nanita responded that he has a son and another child on the way, but did not mention Jacqueline, according to the footage.
This story includes previous reporting from staff writers Christine Dempsey and Lisa Backus.
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