Update:
Patricia Presba and Jaime Ramos were arrested in Salt Lake City, Utah for the murder of Ronald Presba. Patricia Presba was listed missing at risk on July 24, 2008 and possibly in the company of Jaime Ramos.
Salt Lake City Law Enforcement located the associated vehicle at a motel in their jurisdiction. An investigation ensued and they located Patricia Presba and Jaime Ramos at the motel. El Dorado County Sheriff investigators traveled to Salt Lake City to interview the two. Based on the information obtained and evidence located during the investigation of suspicious death on June 24, 2008 both Patricia Presba and Jaime Ramos were arrested for the death of Ronald Presba.
It is anticipated that the two will be extradited back to El Dorado County within the week. Patricia Ann Presba - DOB-02/07/1961, Resident of Georgetown. Jaime Ramos – DOB-10/31/1986, Transient
UPDATE:
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Two people were arrested in Utah Friday in connection with the search for a missing El Dorado County couple, Utah authorities confirmed.
The man and woman, whose names were not released, were arrested around 10 a.m. Friday at a Motel 6 in Salt Lake City during a routine check for stolen vehicles, according to Salt Lake City TV affiliate
KTVX.
Salt Lake City police Lt. Scott White said the two were wanted for suspicion of murder in El Dorado County in connection with the
death of Ron Presba of
Georgetown.
The break in a Northern California murder and kidnapping case began simply enough. Agents with the State Division of Motor Vehicles were making a routine check of license plates in a Motel 6 parking lot on North Temple. They were looking for stolen cars. What they found instead was a 2003 blue-green Hyundai Tiburon wanted in connection with an endangered person’s advisory out of El Dorado County, California.
KSL said agents from the Utah Division of Motor Vehicle Enforcement were running license plates at the Motel 6 at 1900 West and North Temple when police said they found a 2003 Hyundai wanted in connection with the El Dorado County disappearances.
Salt Lake City police officers were called to assist. Officers from the DMV arrested a woman as she came out of her motel room and headed toward the car. The man was arrested in his room shortly afterward without incident, KSL reported.
The man and woman were both taken to a hospital, KSL said. The woman had cuts on her body, and the man had gunshot wounds. Investigators aren't sure how they were injured or how long ago they were injured.
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"I would surmise that (detectives) would be going to meet with individuals surrounding yesterday's events," Golmitz said. "And whatever information they can glean from them in regard to last month's incident."
A Salt Lake City police lieutenant told media outlets a man taken into custody had what appeared to be three gunshot wounds. A woman detained at the scene had a stab wound in her arm. Several phone messages to Salt Lake City authorities by The Bee were not returned.
Meanwhile, the disappearance of Presba's husband, Ronald Presba, 54, remains unsolved. His car was found burned out at the base of a ravine along Highway 193 near Kelsey on June 25, and human remains were found in the passenger compartment of the Chevy Suburban.
Sheriff's deputies had found blood markings on the roadway, leading them to believe foul play was involved in the occupant's death.
A forensic autopsy has not determined conclusively if the remains were of Ronald Presba.
Officials have not linked the two disappearances, but they are hitting a nerve, generating significant interest on the Internet and stirring some buzz in the sparely populated area.
A member of the Presba family, who gave her first name as April, 35, but requested her last name be withheld, was tending the garden at the house off Highway 193 between Garden Valley and Georgetown shared by Ronald and Patricia Presba. She said her father, an independent backhoe operator, had recently started gardening again after giving it up for 17 years.
The garden is part of a tidy yard skirting the modest house on about two acres in the dry, hilly area.
Patricia Presba was reported missing to deputies at 10:45 a.m. Thursday. When deputies arrived at her home on Meadow Brook Road, they found the front door ajar and what appeared to be blood on the door, Golmitz stated in a news release. Deputies also reported finding more blood inside the home.
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Presba's Chevy Suburban was found crashed at the bottom of a ravine along Highway 193 north of Placerville June 24 in a crash that triggered a small wildfire.
A body was found inside the truck, but authorities have not been able to determine conclusively if it was Presba.
Presba's wife Patty became the center of a missing person investigation herself Thursday. ...
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GEORGETOWN, CA - El Dorado sheriff's investigators were trying to piece together a growing mystery Thursday after a Georgetown woman vanished under suspicious circumstances, exactly one month after the strange disappearance and presumed death of the woman's husband.
The investigation started around 10:30 a.m. Thursday after a friend found the front door of Patricia Presba's Georgetown home open with what appeared to be blood on the door ...
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