A father and son were arrested on Tuesday in connection to the disappearance of Kristin Smart, a California college student who vanished while walking home nearly 25 years ago.
Paul Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, 80, are behind bars after a tedious investigation, John Segale, a spokesman for the Smart family, and two law enforcement sources told CNN.
Ruben Flores is being held on a $250,000 bond, and he’s been hit with accessory charges, but the Washington Examiner was unable to verify if his son was in custody as the jail records webpage was not operational at the time of publishing.
Authorities in March searched the home of Ruben Flores, whose son is believed to be the principal suspect in Smart’s disappearance. Law enforcement entered Paul Flores’s home in 2020 and located “items of interest” pertaining to the investigation.
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The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday that it would be “discussing major developments in the investigation into the disappearance of Kristin Smart” at 5 p.m.
Sheriff Ian Parkinson will be discussing major developments in the investigation into the disappearance of Kristin Smart. pic.twitter.com/pNak3BCLJq
— SLO County Sheriff (@SLOSheriff) April 13, 2021
Smart, who was a student at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, was last seen near her dormitory as she walked home from a fraternity party in 1996. After years of searching, she was declared dead in 2002, although authorities have yet to locate her corpse.
In 2016, FBI authorities with cadaver K-9s searched for her body near the Cal Poly “P” on campus following a tip, but they did not find her.
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Segale did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner, and the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office was unable to be reached.
