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The body of a man who disappeared nearly a month ago was discovered in the desert this week, a day after a second suspect was arrested in the case, police said Friday.
The body of Matias Ojeda Vazquez, 42, who vanished Dec. 22, was found wrapped in a blanket several dozen feet from Interstate 15 near Yermo.
Leticia Carrasco-Ornelas, 48, was arrested late Wednesday while driving Vazquez’s car in Las Vegas, two days after her son, Noel Carrasco, 22, was apprehended in a mall parking lot there, police said. The mother and son, who are from the Buena Park-Garden Grove area, will be extradited to face charges of robbery and murder, police said.
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