A former Marine arrested in El Salvador earlier this week for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend was ordered held without bail during an arraignment hearing in California on Friday.
September 2, 2022, 4:42 PMSan Diego County District Attorney
"This week, this defendant's brazen attempt to evade justice was over," San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said during a press briefing following the arraignment. "The work to hold him accountable has begun."San Diego County District AttorneySan Diego ABC affiliate KGTV reported Mitchell's mother, Josephine Funes Wentzel, a former police detective, was instrumental in the search for McLeod by helping generate leads and spreading the word about the manhunt on social media, the district attorney's office said."He's not going to get away again. He's never going to be released from that jail if I could have something to do with that," Wentzel, who was in the courtroom Friday, told reporters after the arraignment hearing.
McLeod was believed to have also been in Belize, Guatemala and, for the past two-and-a-half years, El Salvador, Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Joseph O'Callahan told reporters during Friday's briefing.
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