{"id":58067,"date":"2025-09-10T19:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=58067"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:31:39","slug":"lobato-brothers-get-life-sentences-after-proud-confessions-to-polk-county-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/09\/10\/lobato-brothers-get-life-sentences-after-proud-confessions-to-polk-county-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobato brothers get life sentences after \u2018proud\u2019 confessions to Polk County murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two brothers who were convicted of murdering a 21-year-old in Polk County have both been sentenced to life in prison, the state attorney\u2019s office said Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angel Lobato received his life sentence last week. His brother, Jo Lobato, was sentenced late last year. Both were charged with first-degree murder and convicted by a Polk County jury.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The two brothers were still teenagers when investigators said they plotted to rob and kill 21-year-old Danne Frazier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frazier\u2019s mother reported him missing on Nov. 4, 2020, telling police he had not been answering his phone all day. She also noticed suspicious activity on his bank account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flagler County deputies spotted Frazier\u2019s car on the night of Nov. 6, 2020, and found Jo Lobato in the driver\u2019s seat. His brother, Angel, was in the passenger\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frazier\u2019s body was found only days later, on Nov. 10, in an overgrown wooded area in Lake Wales. Polk County deputies said he had suffered extreme trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When crime scene investigators processed Frazier\u2019s car, they found several spots of blood both inside and outside, and some of Frazier\u2019s clothing inside the trunk. They soon found probable cause to arrest the Lobato brothers in the theft of Frazier\u2019s car, among other related crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd called the brothers\u2019 confessions afterward \u201chorrific,\u201d stating that they both talked about \u201chow proud they were.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jo Lobato said he began talking with Frazier on social media about a month before the murder. The Lobato brothers were looking to \u201chit a lick\u201d to obtain a car and money, and saw Frazier as an easy target, according to the state attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jo Lobato pretended he wanted a relationship with Frazier and eventually convinced Frazier to meet up with him in the Central Park area of Winter Haven. It was at that point that the brothers carried out their plan to rob and kill Frazier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angel Lobato hid behind a tree until Jo Lobato and Fraizer arrived at Lake Howard in Frazier\u2019s car. Detectives said the brothers had already planned out the spot of the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angle Lobato then came out from behind the tree with a metal bat and struck Fraizer numerous times. The brothers also cut Fraizer\u2019s throat with a knife to make sure he was \u201cgone,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They then loaded Frazier\u2019s body into the car and drove him to the Lake Wales area, where they dumped his body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we interviewed them, they were pure evil in the flesh,\u201d Judd said after the brothers\u2019 arrests. \u201cThey bragged about it, they talked about how, you know, they\u2019d have street cred. They\u2019d have their stripes. They\u2019d be respected on the streets because they\u2019d done this murder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years later, and with both brothers sentenced, State Attorney Brian Haas thanked Assistant State Attorney Ralph Guerra and the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Lakeland Police Department for \u201cpursuing justice\u201d in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two brothers who were convicted of murdering a 21-year-old in Polk County have both been sentenced to life in prison, the state attorney\u2019s office said Tuesday. Angel Lobato received his life sentence last… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"14","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDlcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtOTktNC53ZWJwP2ZpdD02MzMlMkMzMDgmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJMb2JhdG8gYnJvdGhlcnMgZ2V0IGxpZmUgc2VudGVuY2VzIGFmdGVyIFx1MjAxOHByb3VkXHUyMDE5IGNvbmZlc3Npb25zIHRvIFBvbGsgQ291bnR5IG11cmRlciIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.N1ZhV6-6htC6eKaqXaSSsqf6ValXr-T78Xq35wxlm6EMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":58068,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-99-4.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[12254],"class_list":["post-58067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lobato-brothers-get-life-sentences-after-proud-confessions-to-polk-county-murder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58069,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58067\/revisions\/58069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}