A 51-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after DNA confirmed a decomposed leg found in a Southern California field belonged to a missing teenage girl from Riverside County.
Abraham Feinbloom, a resident of Salton City,was apprehended on Fridayas authorities continue searching for the remains of 17-year-old T’Neya “TT” Tovar.
As deputies and FBI agents arrived with a search warrant at his Harlequin Court home around 7:30 a.m., Feinbloom allegedly jumped a fence in an apparent attempt to flee but was quickly captured,KESQ-TV reported.
Feinbloom was arrested and booked into Imperial County Jail on charges of murder and resisting a peace officer. He is being held without bail.
Tovar, a resident of Hemet who had been described as “headstrong” and “full of energy,” was last heard from on Dec. 1, when she called her mother to say she was heading to Palm Springs, promising to return home within two weeks.
Her mother Charro Tovar filed amissing person report. She told authorities that she later learned T’Neya was traveling to meet Feinbloom,according to KESQ-TV.
Friends told Charro Tovar they had seen T’Neya with Feinbloom in October at the 7th Street Metro transit station in Los Angeles, suggesting their contact may have begun months before she vanished, the local TV station reported.
In the weeks that followed, her parents repeatedly drove roughly 70 miles from their Riverside County home to a boarded-up pink home on Harlequin Court inSalton City, where T’Neya’s phone last pinged.
They say deputies conducted four welfare checks but never forced entry and suggested the teen might be a runaway.
“If they had acted sooner, maybe my child could have been saved,” Charro Tovar said in an interview with KESQ-TV.
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