A 51-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of homicide after DNA confirmed a decomposed leg present in a Southern California area belonged to a lacking teenage Riverside County woman.
Abraham Feinbloom, a resident of Salton Metropolis, was apprehended on Friday as authorities proceed trying to find the remainder of 17-year-old T’Neya “TT” Tovar’s stays.
As deputies and FBI brokers arrived with a search warrant at his Harlequin Court docket residence round 7:30 a.m., Feinbloom allegedly jumped a fence in an obvious try and flee however was shortly captured, KESQ-TV reported.
Feinbloom was arrested and booked into Imperial County Jail on prices of homicide and resisting a peace officer. He’s being held with out bail.
Tovar, a resident of Hemet who has been described as “headstrong” and “stuffed with vitality,” was final heard from on Dec. 1, when she known as her mom and stated she was heading to Palm Springs, promising to return residence inside two weeks.
Her mom, Charro Tovar, filed a lacking individual report. She advised authorities that she later realized T’Neya was touring to satisfy Feinbloom, in response to KESQ-TV.
Mates advised Charro that they had seen T’Neya with Feinbloom in October on the seventh and Metro transit station in Los Angeles, suggesting their contact could have begun months earlier than she vanished, the native TV station reported.
Within the weeks that adopted, her dad and mom repeatedly drove roughly 70 miles from their Riverside County residence to a boarded-up pink residence on Harlequin Court docket in Salton Metropolis, the place her telephone final pinged.
They are saying deputies performed 4 welfare checks however by no means compelled entry and prompt the teenager could be a runaway.
“If that they had acted sooner, possibly my youngster may have been saved,” Charro stated in an interview with KESQ-TV.
Neighbors reported listening to drums, seeing shiny lights and occasional screams coming from the home, and one household nicknamed Feinbloom “the scary man within the scary home.”
On Dec. 21, deputies responded to a reported sighting of human stays in a area within the Vista Del Mar part of Salton Metropolis.
Legislation enforcement officers recovered a decomposed human leg, however couldn’t decide the intercourse, age or race of the individual to whom it belonged.
DNA testing by forensic pathologists later confirmed that the leg belonged to T’Neya. The official affirmation got here final week — greater than two months after the unique DNA pattern was taken from the household on Dec. 6.
On Dec. 23 — two days after the leg was found — neighbors stated Feinbloom started putting in a number of safety cameras round his boarded-up pink residence, which is surrounded by a pink cinder-block wall.
Her mom has questioned why DNA testing took greater than six weeks and why repeated welfare checks didn’t result in an earlier search warrant.
Public data listing Feinbloom as a musician who had lived on the residence for years. County property data present the deed remained within the identify of his deceased dad and mom.
The investigation stays lively, with the FBI providing a $10,000 reward for data associated to the case.
The household and regulation enforcement officers weren’t instantly out there for remark.
