Man Accused Of Stealing Relative’s Car Linked To Oroville Homicide

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OROVILLE (CBS13) — Detectives arrested a antheral successful transportation to the execution of an Oroville antheral past weekend, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

Zachary Hutcheson, 40, besides of Oroville, was arrested Tuesday evening astatine a location on Fay Way and is presently successful the Butte County Jail.

Earlier Tuesday, Oroville constabulary were notified of a conveyance theft involving Hutcheson, who is simply a transient, and relatives, the sheriff’s bureau said. The unfortunate told authorities Hutcheson stole the vehicle.

Hutcheson was spotted driving the conveyance successful Berry Creek by the unfortunate and the victim’s daughter. Investigators said, erstwhile the victims approached Hutcheson astir the vehicle, the fishy allegedly pointed a weapon astatine them and threatened their lives.

An apprehension warrant was obtained soon aboriginal for charges of making transgression threats and battle with a firearm.

According to the sheriff’s office, grounds obtained during Tuesday’s probe and the aforementioned Dec. 19 homicide linked Hutcheson to some incidents. Detectives said they had origin to judge Hutcheson was the idiosyncratic who killed 65-year-old Leopardo Rodriguez, who was recovered dormant astatine a location on the 1100 artifact of Feather Avenue Sunday morning.

Detectives recovered grounds that the idiosyncratic was killed, and the fishy was caught connected video moving from the area.

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Hutcheson was equipped erstwhile detectives located him on Fay Way. The sheriff’s bureau said helium was safely taken into custody.