By Mashaun D. Simon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
8:22 p.m. Saturday, September 26, 2009
A former DeKalb County deputy charged with killing his wife and a day laborer is back on American soil.
Around 6 p.m. Saturday, the plane carrying Derrick Yancey from Belize landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Yancey is accused of the 2008 shootings of Linda Yancey, 44, and Marcial Cax Puluc, a 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant he hired to work at his Stone Mountain home. Initially, Yancey told investigators that Puluc had killed his wife before he killed Puluc in self-defense.
Dressed in all black, with his hands and legs shackled, Yancey was escorted through customs and then transported to the lower level of North Terminal entrance.
He said nothing as officers moved him from the backseat of a truck, patted him down and placed him into the backseat of a DeKalb County Sheriff's vehicle.
Yancey disappeared in April while awaiting trial for the killings. He cut off the monitoring bracelet on his ankle, boarded a Greyhound bus headed west and disappeared.
A tipster told officials Yancey was in Punta Gorda, Belize. That tipster, whom authorities refused to identify, stands to collect a $20,000 reward, officials said.
DeKalb deputies, working with the U.S. Marshals Service, located Yancey a week ago in a bar in Punta Gorda, a town of about 6,000 in southern Belize. He admitted he was the fugitive and was taken into custody.
Yancey will be held at the DeKalb jail, said Jeffrey Mann, chief deputy for the DeKalb Sheriff's Office.
When he will face a judge and what additional charges he may face are unknown, said Mann. "I will leave that up to the district attorney."
1 comment:
I will be really interesting to see whether he did commit this murder or not. I don't know how he attended her memorial services though. I know that I would be racked with so much guilt that I could start to yell and confess. Thanks for sharing this case.
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