SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Police say a released sex offender is a suspect in the slaying of a woman in Spokane.
Police said Thursday investigators have searched a car and apartment used by 24-year-old Derrick Ross Vargas. He has not been charged in the death of 48-year-old Evon Moore whose body was found Aug. 13.
Vargas was arrested Sept. 23 for investigation of rape in a separate case and is held in the Spokane County Jail.
KXLY reports (http://bit.ly/qMWB7F ) he was released from prison Aug. 2 after serving nearly four years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman and girl on the Colville Indian Reservation.
