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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
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unable to verify if his son was in custody as the jail records webpage was not operational at the time of publishing.
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Getty Images The former classmate of Kristin Smart who was the last person seen with her in 1996 after they left a party was taken into custody Tuesday morning, along with his father, and was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Paul Flores was taken into custody at his home in San Pedro and has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff s Department said. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories.
Flores father, 80-year-old Ruben Flores, was taken into custody at his San Luis Obispo County home with bail set at $250,000. He was arrested on suspicion of being an accessory.
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Early one Saturday morning nearly 25 years ago, Kristin Smart left a college party near the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus and never returned to her dormitory.
Investigators’ suspicions centered around Paul Flores, a classmate who was the last person seen with Smart. But for decades, despite multiple rounds of interrogations and searches using radar and cadaver dogs, Smart’s body was never found. Without sufficient evidence to implicate him in Smart’s disappearance and presumed death, authorities would only describe Flores as a suspect. But on Tuesday, San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s detectives arrested Flores, 44, on suspicion of murder and booked him into the San Luis Obispo County Jail, according to law enforcement sources and jail records. Also arrested Tuesday was Flores’ father, Ruben Ricardo Flores, 80, on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact, according to booking records.
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Two suspects arrested in the 1996 disappearance of Kristin Smart, family and sources say
Two men were arrested April 13 in connection with the disappearance of Kristin Smart, the California college student who vanished in 1996, a spokesman for the family and two law enforcement sources confirmed to CNN. Credit: FBI
Two men were arrested Tuesday morning in connection with the disappearance of Kristin Smart.
Posted: Apr 13, 2021 1:13 PM
Updated: Apr 13, 2021 1:15 PM
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(CNN) Two men were arrested Tuesday morning in connection with the disappearance of Kristin Smart, the California college student who vanished in 1996, a spokesperson for the family and two law enforcement sources confirmed to CNN.