SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) - The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says a deputy arrested a homicide suspect from California last week.
The sheriff’s office says deputies were dispatched to a business in the Village of Oak Creek near Sedona regarding a man and woman reportedly trying to score drugs and alcohol in the parking lot.
Deputies encountered a woman who gave the wrong spelling of her name and was later determined to be 23-year-old Tabitha Taravella, a suspect in a killing in Yreka, California.
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Police arrested her on Dec. 14 after asking her to remove a bandanna covering a notable tattoo of a boom box.
Taravella was arrested but she denied any involvement in the homicide.
Local reports indicate Taravella was involved in the Dec. 10 killing of 33-year-old Paul Mullins in a tent.
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