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Person of interest arrested in Florida after 4 Oklahoma men found dismembered in river
Okmulgee, Oklahoma deaths: Individual of curiosity arrested
An individual of curiosity in a homicide investigation in Oklahoma, the place 4 pals went lacking and have been later discovered shot and severely dismembered in a river, was discovered and arrested in Florida on Tuesday, police stated.
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. – Police have arrested an individual of curiosity in Florida in connection to a homicide investigation in Oklahoma, the place 4 pals went lacking and have been later discovered shot and dismembered in a river.
Joe Kennedy II, 62, was arrested in Daytona Seaside Shores on Tuesday on a cost of grand theft after he was discovered driving a reported stolen automobile, Daytona Seaside Shores Division of Public Security stated in a press launch.
Daytona Seaside DPS stated the black Toyota Tundra pickup truck was reported stolen on Monday in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, which is positioned about 40 miles south of Tulsa, and the place a separate dying investigation is being carried out.
A Daytona Seaside Shores Division of Public Security officer was monitoring site visitors with their radar gun round South Atlantic Avenue (A1A) on Tuesday morning, when her automobile’s license plate reader alerted to a stolen truck that had handed by.
The officer requested backup and carried out a site visitors cease. Joe Kennedy was arrested with out challenge and booked into the Volusia County jail, the place he’s being held with out bond.
Okmulgee police stated in a Fb submit the district lawyer and the sheriff would start the method of extraditing Kennedy again to Okmulgee County to be questioned within the disappearance and deaths of 4 males there.
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In Oklahoma, police stated 4 pals – Mark Chastain, 32, Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29 – have been reported lacking final week, and later discovered lifeless. Their dismembered our bodies have been reportedly present in a river.
Kennedy has been named an individual of curiosity within the dying investigation however has not been named a suspect.
“The homicide investigation is ongoing and investigators proceed to observe leads every single day,” Okmulgee police stated in a Fb submit.
Officers in Oklahoma stated they found the dismembered stays final week.
Billy Chastain, 30, Mark Chastain, 32, Alex Stevens, 29, and Mike Sparks, 32, are pictured in supplied photos by police. (Credit score: Okmulgee Police Division)
On Oct. 9, authorities stated the group of pals left Billy Chastain’s residence round 8 p.m., all using bicycles, in response to Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice.
Investigators consider the lads had deliberate to “commit some kind of prison act” earlier than they have been killed, the chief stated.
That was based mostly on info from a witness who had been invited to hitch the lads to “hit a lick large enough for all of them,” Prentice stated, quoting the witness, although the chief added regulation enforcement did not know what they have been planning or the place they deliberate to do it.
Officers in Oklahoma stated they found the dismembered stays final week.
On Oct. 9, authorities stated the group of pals left Billy Chastain’s residence round 8 p.m., all using bicycles, in response to Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice.
Investigators consider the lads had deliberate to “commit some kind of prison act” earlier than they have been killed, the chief stated.
That was based mostly on info from a witness who had been invited to hitch the lads to “hit a lick large enough for all of them,” Prentice stated, quoting the witness, although the chief added regulation enforcement did not know what they have been planning or the place they deliberate to do it.