2 suspects in Texas girl's death nabbed at U.S.-Canada border Associated Press
PORT HURON, Mich. - Two Texas high school seniors accused of killing a 16-year-old classmate and burying her body in a shallow grave were arraigned Thursday on fugitive from justice charges. Canadian border agents stopped 18-year-olds Sean H. Brown and Matthew R. McCombs on Wednesday evening at the Blue Water Bridge. It crosses the St. Clair River between Port Huron and Sarnia, Ontario, about 55 miles northeast of Detroit. The agents became suspicious after questioning the pair and ran a criminal check, which showed that they were wanted in the Texas death, a Canadian government spokesman said. Canadian agents turned the pair over to U.S. authorities Wednesday night, said Danny Yen, spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency. Brown requested an extradition hearing at Thursday's arraignment in St. Clair County District Court, Port Huron police Capt. Don Porrett told the Times Herald. The hearing was scheduled for Aug. 11 before District Judge David Nicholson. McCombs pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of fugitive from justice and waived an extradition hearing. Texas police were expected to pick him up soon. Both were being held Thursday in the St. Clair County Jail on $5 million bail. The men had been charged in Texas in the weekend death of 16-year-old Ashton Glover, Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright said. Upon being charged Wednesday, the suspects' names were entered into a national crime database with a description of the truck they were thought to be driving. "I am thankful they caught those boys and are bringing them back to Texas," Sue Smith, Glover's mother, told the Houston Chronicle. "I'm happy they are going to be brought back to justice." Workers installing utilities for a new subdivision discovered Glover's body Monday afternoon at a construction site west of Missouri City, Texas. Brown and McCombs, who are next-door neighbors in Sugar Land, disappeared from their homes about two hours after the body was unearthed, authorities said. Glover's family reported her missing Saturday. She was last seen by her friends getting into a pickup in Sugar Land early Saturday morning. Police said Glover and her friends had been out "mudding," or driving pickups and off-road vehicles through muddy fields. An autopsy showed Glover to have died from blunt force trauma. Wright said there were no signs of robbery or sexual assault. He said the motive for the slaying is unknown. Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
