2 ARRESTED IN DEATHS OF TWO WOMEN.Byline: R.A. Hutchinson Daily News Staff Writer City police made arrests Thursday in a pair of unrelated murders that had been the focus of intense investigations in recent weeks. Diana J. Haun, 35, was arrested at her Port Hueneme Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. home on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering Sherri Rene Dally, 35 of Ventura, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Lt. Don Arth, commander of detective operations for the Ventura Police Department. Alan Holland, 29, of Hollywood was served with a felony warrant Thursday accusing him of murder, carjacking The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation. The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger and robbery in a fatal attack on an Oxnard woman in the parking lot of Poinsettia poinsettia: see spurge. poinsettia Popular flowering plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima), best-known member of the diverse spurge family. Native to Mexico and Central America, it grows in moist, wet, wooded ravines and on rocky hillsides. Plaza in July, according to police. Dally was reported missing from the Target store in Ventura on May 6. Witnesses told police they saw Dally walk to her van about 9:30 a.m. when a car pulled up behind the van and blocked it. The female driver of the car then approached Dally, who after talking briefly walked to the car and entered a rear passenger door, according to witnesses. After Dally was reported missing, search parties organized by community members found the victim's skeletal remains June 1 in a barranca bar·ran·ca also bar·ran·co n. pl. bar·ran·cas also bar·ran·cos Southwestern U.S. 1. A deep ravine or gorge. 2. A bluff. along Canada Larga Road north of Ventura. The county medical examiner A public official charged with investigating all sudden, suspicious, unexplained, or unnatural deaths within the area of his or her appointed jurisdiction. A medical examiner differs from a Coroner in that a medical examiner is a physician. , who identified Dally using dental records Dental Records is a small, independent metal record label, based in Ipswich, UK. Artists
Haun was being held Thursday in lieu of $1 million bail, according to police. Holland was arrested after police followed a trail of stolen credit card purchases and a handgun tying the suspect to the shooting death of Mildred Wilson, 65. Wilson was shot in the chest at 2:25 p.m. July 20 and left bleeding in the crowded parking lot at Poinsettia Plaza, at Telephone Road and Main Street. She later died at Ventura County Medical Center Ventura County Medical Center is a hospital in the city of Ventura, California, USA. It is a 208 bed acute care hospital. The county also operates a 49 bed campus in Santa Paula. . Police investigated the case as a carjacking and murder because Wilson's 1986 Ford LTD was taken from the parking lot and driven a short distance before it was abandoned along Telephone Road, blocking a lane of traffic. Officers recovered the white Ford with a maroon roof shortly after arriving at the scene the day of the shooting. On July 26, Holland was stopped by Newport Beach police officers for an equipment violation. Arth said that as police were making routine checks, the driver sped away. Holland was taken into custody after a high-speed chase on suspicion of evading arrest, a parole violation warrant and carrying a concealed .25-caliber handgun. Holland remains in the Orange County Jail, where the Ventura warrant was served on him. He will be transferred to the Ventura County Jail. Police said they are still investigating both cases and encourage anyone with information to call (805) 339-4482. |
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