Victorville woman arrested in husband’s 2015 killing after being found in Mexico

A Victorville girl has been arrested in her husband’s 2015 killing after she was present in Mexico, officers introduced Monday.

The girl, 40-year-old Leticia Smith, has lengthy been a suspect within the killing of Antoine Smith, who was 35 on the time of his dying, in accordance with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division.

The case unfolded in Could 2015, after a number of folks known as authorities to report that the husband had not been heard from for a number of days.

Pals and colleagues grew to become anxious after receiving texts from his cellphone quantity that didn’t sound like him. A lacking particular person report was then filed with the Victorville Sheriff’s Station. 

The subsequent day, deputies went to the couple’s house within the 13000 block of Brynwood Avenue for a welfare examine.

They walked into the bed room to search out Antoine Smith useless, with a number of gunshot wounds.

“By way of the investigation, Leticia was recognized as a suspect in Antoine’s homicide,” the Sheriff’s Division stated in a information launch.

However investigators on the time couldn’t discover the spouse. They suspected she had fled to Mexico with couple’s 8- and 4-year-old daughters.  

In December 2021, almost seven years after the killing, the case was picked up by investigators from a chilly case murder group.

They labored with Mexican authorities and located Smith residing in Rosarito, Mexico.

With assist from the Division of Justice, investigators arrested Smith in Mexico on an extraditable warrant for her husband’s killing.

The couple’s two kids have been discovered to be protected in Mexico.

On March 4, the U.S. Marshals Service took custody of Smith from Mexican authorities, and he or she was introduced again to California and booked on $2 million bail.