Man Wanted for Strangling Woman Caught Asleep
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Posted: 11:31 AM Oct 3, 2008
Man Wanted for Strangling Woman Caught Asleep
READING, Pa. (AP)
A Pennsylvania man wanted in the strangling death of a woman is in custody after he was caught napping at a Virginia highway rest stop.
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A Pennsylvania man wanted in the strangling death of a woman is in custody after he was caught napping at a Virginia highway rest stop.

Officials say Virginia state troopers checking a report of a suspicious car found 32-year-old Julio Lastra sleeping in a stolen vehicle at an Interstate 95 rest stop south of Richmond.

Lastra is charged with first-degree murder in the September 25 strangulation of Marisol Rivera of Frystown. Her body was found in the trunk after Lastra crashed a car in the Harrisburg area and fled a week ago.

He's being held in the Riverside Regional Jail at Hopewell, Virginia, awaiting transport back to Pennsylvania.
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