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A father and son were arrested on Tuesday in connection to the disappearance of Kristin Smart, a California college student who vanished while walking home nearly 25 years ago.
Paul Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, 80, are behind bars after a tedious investigation, John Segale, a spokesman for the Smart family, and two law enforcement sources told CNN.
Ruben Flores is being held on a $250,000 bond, and he s been hit with accessory charges, but the
Washington Examiner was
unable to verify if his son was in custody as the jail records webpage was not operational at the time of publishing.
Suspect Arrested 25 Years After College Student Disappeared: Family
The suspect in the disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart was arrested Tuesday.
Paul Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, were taken into custody early on Tuesday in San Pedro, a Smart family spokesman John Seagle said, according to CNN and KCRA.
Smart, 19, of Stockton, California, vanished while returning to a dorm at California Polytechnic State University in 1996 after a party. Smart was seen with Flores, who was also a student at the time.
In April 2020, a search warrant was served at Flores’ home in San Pedro. Flores, now 44, was arrested in February on a weapons charge unrelated to the case.
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An undated handout image of missing college student Kristin Smart. Office of the Attorney General of California/Handout via REUTERS
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Police have arrested a longtime suspect and his father in connection with the murder of Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old college freshman who went missing from her California university 25 years ago.
Smart was last seen walking to her dormitory on the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Los Angeles, in 1996 after attending an off-campus party.
Paul Flores, a fellow student at Cal Poly SLO in 1996 and long a prime suspect in the unsolved case, was taken into custody on a murder charge on Tuesday morning in the Los Angeles suburb of San Pedro, a source close to the case told Reuters. Flores is now 43.
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