LOS ANGELES – An arrest has been made in connection with a body found inside a burned car at a South LA tow yard.
What we know:
On September 9, detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit, were conducting a follow-up at a towyard located on the 1900 block of West Gage Avenue in South Los Angeles, related to a missing person investigation.
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During their investigation, detectives discovered a deceased person in the trunk of a vehicle.
Los Angeles Police Department Robbery-Homicide Division, Homicide Special Section detectives assumed responsibility for the investigation.
On September 16, search warrants were served at multiple locations. On that same date, 52-year-old Sandra Romo Diaz was arrested for murder.
Diaz was booked into a Los Angeles Police Department jail facility. On September 18, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed one count of murder against Diaz.
Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to say the body found in the vehicle is not that of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
The Source: Information for this story came from the Los Angeles Police Department.
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