A man in Washington, D.C., was arrested on Thursday in connection to the murder of his girlfriend, who was facing charges of tampering with evidence after telling police she put her infant son’s body in the trash nearly a year ago.
Carl Bernard Jones, 44, faces one charge of second-degree murder while armed after police responded to reports of a stabbing in Northeast Washington at approximately 3 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Officials then found the body of Ladonia Boggs, who died at the scene.
Investigators later obtained security camera footage showing Jones with a knife outside of Boggs’s building before she was killed, court documents state. Police found Jones, who denied involvement in Boggs’s death, that night and brought him in for questioning.
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Boggs was set to appear at a hearing in her own trial on June 10 on charges of tampering with physical evidence after telling police she had placed the remains of her dead infant son in a trash receptacle almost one year prior. It’s not clear whether the baby’s death was a motive in the killing of Boggs.
The 39-year-old mother was sleeping in the same bed as her two-month-old son when she rolled over him and accidentally killed him, she told police in May 2021, according to court records. When she woke up to find the baby not breathing, she placed his body in a dumpster and didn’t tell anyone what had happened, the filing said.
At first, Boggs told her boyfriend that authorities with the city’s Child and Family Services Agency had taken her son from the home, according to reports. Upon calling the agency, Jones learned no one had taken the baby, and the social worker then contacted the MPD and other city authorities to report a missing person case, officials said.
After being confronted by authorities, Boggs said she had given the baby to his godmother, but when officials failed to locate her, the mother then told police she had accidentally killed her son, court documents said.
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Prosecutors had decided not to pursue murder charges, instead charging her with evidence tampering.
Jones is set to be held in a Washington jail until his trial, court documents state. His attorneys have argued prosecutors lack physical evidence to connect him to the crime.
