"A man who had been named by the family of a missing 17-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of murder after the teen's leg was found in the California desert. Notice about T'Neya Tovar on the missing-persons website of California's attorney general. The leg was discovered just before Christmas in the community of Salton City, and on Feb. 12 the Imperial County Sheriff's Office announced that DNA testing had revealed it was that of T'Neya Tovar, a Hemet girl who had gone missing."
"The next day Friday, Feb. 13 a team of officers went to the Salton City home of a 51-year-old man with whom T'Neya had reportedly been acquainted. He was apprehended after jumping a fence in an apparent attempt to flee. The man's home is about half a mile from the vacant lot where the leg was found on Dec. 21, in a scattered residential development on the west shore of the Salton Sea."
A leg was discovered just before Christmas in a vacant lot in Salton City on the west shore of the Salton Sea. DNA testing announced Feb. 12 confirmed the leg belonged to 17-year-old T'Neya Tovar of Hemet, who had been reported missing after last being seen Dec. 1 and failing to return from an expected trip to Palm Springs. On Feb. 13 officers went to the Salton City home of a 51-year-old man with whom T'Neya had reportedly been acquainted; he jumped a fence and was apprehended. The home is about half a mile from where the leg was found. The suspect faces murder charges and is held without bail at Imperial County Jail in El Centro.
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