BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
The âprime suspectâ was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder in the 25-year-old disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart.
Paul Flores, 44, who was the last person seen with Smart on the California Polytechnic State University campus in San Luis Obispo before she vanished in 1996, was taken into custody in the Los Angeles area. His father, Ruben Flores, 80, was arrested as an accessory at his Arroyo Grande home, where sheriffâs investigators conducted their latest search for evidence.
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said search warrants were sealed and so he could not disclose what evidence led to the arrests, but he said Smart s remains were not found.
LOS ANGELES The longtime suspect in the 25-year-old disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder, and his father was booked in jail as an accessory to the crime. Paul Flores, 44, who was the last person seen with Smart on the California Polytechnic State University campus in San Luis Obispo before she vanished in 1996, was taken into custody in the Los Angeles area. His father, Ruben Flores, 80, was arrested at his Arroyo Grande home, where sheriff s investigators conducted a new search for evidence. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said arrest warrants were issued after a search of the elder Flores home last month using ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs turned up new evidence linked to Smart s killing, though her body has not yet been found.
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The Minnesota police officer who shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright dead during a traffic stop resigned yesterday, along with her police chief. Authorities said that officer Kim Potter had meant to discharge her Taser on Wright to stop him driving away, and accidentally discharged a handgun.
The resignations came after two nights of protests in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center, which has erupted into demonstrations since Wright, who is Black, was killed on Sunday.
Wright’s parents said they “could not accept”
he was killed accidentally, with his father, Aubrey Wright, pointing to the officer’s experience. “I can’t accept that, a mistake, that doesn’t even sound right,” he said. “This officer has been on the force for 26 years.”