Police Charge Suspect After Man’s Body Was Found In An East Charlotte Dumpster

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police have charged a suspect in connection to an east Charlotte homicide that happened near The Plaza late last week.

29-year-old Jessie Daniel Benton was arrested early Thursday morning. He has been charged with the Murder and Armed Robbery of Jose Chicas.

Officers with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department say a jogger found a Chicas’s body near a dumpster just before 7 a.m. on Thursday, June 21st in the 1900 block of Milton Road at the Run-In Convenience Store.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call  Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.