| Suspect arrested in nearly 10-year-old JonBenet Ramsey case |
(CNN) -- Nearly a decade after the body of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found in the basement of her family's sprawling Boulder, Colo., home, setting off a media sensation and years of speculation regarding her killer, authorities on Wednesday announced they had arrested a man halfway around the world in connection with her slaying.
A law enforcement official identified the suspect as John Mark Karr, 41, a former schoolteacher and an American citizen. A U.S. government source in Bangkok, Thailand, said Karr was arrested there Wednesday and was in Thai police custody.
Karr was arrested at his apartment in Bangkok, said Thai Immigration police Maj. Akkrapong Sunthornvipak. He spent Wednesday night at Bangkok's Immigration Detention Center.
Lt. Gen. Suwat Thamrongrisakul, chief of Thai immigration, said Thai police have a three-count U.S. arrest warrant charging Karr with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and sexual child abuse. While not directly tying Karr's arrest to the Ramsey case, he said all of the crimes alleged took place in the United States in 1996 -- the same year JonBenet was killed. (Posted 12:44 a.m.)
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