Dow said that he could not charge Paul Flores with rape because the statute of limitations had expired. The sheriff said that, after the arrests, he had turned over the case to the San Luis Obispo County district attorney’s office. Ruben Flores was also booked at the jail, with bond set at $250,000, according to jail records. Paul Flores was booked on Tuesday at the San Luis Obispo County jail, where he was being held without bail, the sheriff said. Robert Sanger, a lawyer for Paul Flores, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.Īsked about the charges on Wednesday, Harold Mesick, a lawyer for Ruben Flores, said, “I don’t believe there is any evidence, any objective physical evidence that my client has committed any crime, and I certainly don’t believe he has sufficient evidence to convict my client of any crime, primarily because my client has not committed any crime.” We’ve got physical evidence, we have witness statements - things that, in our view, in the totality, have brought us to the point where we believe we can go forward and prosecute Mr. “What I can tell you,” he said, “is that significant new information has come in to the Sheriff’s Office that we’ve reviewed over the last two years, and some very important information just a month ago. Dow declined to elaborate on what the new evidence was. Sheriff Parkinson said on Tuesday that the search warrants were sealed and that he could not discuss what evidence had been found. In February 2020, investigators executed search warrants at four locations in California and Washington State and recovered “some items of interest,” Tony Cipolla, a spokesman for the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office, said at the time. The authorities had previously searched the homes of both Ruben Flores and Paul Flores. Smart’s case was discovered at the site, according to the Sheriff’s Office. In March, the Sheriff’s Office said it had obtained a warrant to search for evidence at Ruben Flores’s residence, and they used cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar to canvass the property. Smart’s family had her declared legally dead in 2002. Flores’s dorm.” He added, “We certainly believe that Mr. Dow said that “the last place where Kristin was seen was close to the dorms and near Mr. But the Sheriff’s Office, after previously describing him as a person of interest in their investigation, began to refer to him in recent months as a “prime suspect” in the case.Īsked on Wednesday if he knew where Ms.
Paul Flores, 44, who was a Cal Poly student at the time, has denied any involvement in her disappearance. Flores accountable for the murder of Kristin Smart.
And so our team of exceptional professionals and very experienced prosecutors and investigators are going to do everything we can to solve this case successfully and hold Mr. So they’re complicated, they’re difficult, but we don’t make a decision to file unless we believe we can prove the case. In fact, they’re incredibly important for the victim’s family because they want closure, as do the Smarts in this case. No-body homicides are obviously complicated and difficult, but they’re no less important. We have witness statements, things that, in our view, in the totality, have brought us to the point where we believe we can go forward and prosecute Mr. Significant new information has come in to the sheriff’s office that we’ve reviewed over the last two years, and some very important information just a month ago. The allegation against Ruben is that he helped to conceal Kristin’s body after the murder was committed. Ruben is charged with accessory after the fact to murder.
That is first-degree murder under California law. Flores caused the death of Kristin Smart while in the commission of or attempted rape. The charge against Paul Flores is murder. This morning I’m announcing the filing of a felony criminal complaint against two men, Paul Flores and his father, Ruben Flores. Smart, a California college student who disappeared as she walked back to her dorm in 1996. Transcript Charges Filed in Kristin Smart’s Disappearance Prosecutors announced charges, including murder, in the case of Ms.
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