UPDATE: More info on arrest of San Pedro hit-and-run suspect
Here's more on what I've learned about the arrest of Christian Faustino Lopez Herrera in the 1992 hit-and-run deaths of Fred and Ezna Crescitelli:
This is from LAPD Detective Dennis Duran:
My article about their unsolved cold case ran the morning after an off-duty police officer was stabbed at the Crimson bar in San Pedro.
As detectives investigated, the owner of a neighboring business told them that he recognized the man in my article as someone who worked for him. He used the name Oscar Herrera.
The investigation was on.
Detectives obtained search warrants to track Herrera's cell phone with a global satellite positioning device.
An FBI/LAPD fugitive task force began looking for him and tracked him to an address in San Pedro. I believe I had been there while working on the story and encountered a man who called himself Henry Herrera. I don't know if that has turned out to be Christian/Oscar.
Meanwhile, detectives spotted him leaving the house on 5th Street today. They followed him and arrested him. He had bags packed in the car and said he was on his way to Mexico.
He had identification in both names -- Christian and Oscar Herrera.
This is from LAPD Detective Dennis Duran:
My article about their unsolved cold case ran the morning after an off-duty police officer was stabbed at the Crimson bar in San Pedro.
As detectives investigated, the owner of a neighboring business told them that he recognized the man in my article as someone who worked for him. He used the name Oscar Herrera.
The investigation was on.
Detectives obtained search warrants to track Herrera's cell phone with a global satellite positioning device.
An FBI/LAPD fugitive task force began looking for him and tracked him to an address in San Pedro. I believe I had been there while working on the story and encountered a man who called himself Henry Herrera. I don't know if that has turned out to be Christian/Oscar.
Meanwhile, detectives spotted him leaving the house on 5th Street today. They followed him and arrested him. He had bags packed in the car and said he was on his way to Mexico.
He had identification in both names -- Christian and Oscar Herrera.
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