(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – A suspect in an almost 24-year-old Yuba City murder is “finally in custody” according to a YCPD press release.

Officers initially responded to an apartment complex on Queens Avenue in reference to a homicide on July 26th, 1999. Investigators learned Francisco Arellano had killed his wife, then took their 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son and fled to Mexico.

Yuba City Police Detectives continued working the case, specifically, Detectives Scotty Clinkenbeard, Charn Singh, with the language translation abilities Administrative Assistant Toni Darwazeh, Arellamo was located in Mexico and recently extradited back to the U.S. and booked into the Sutter County Jail.