By Jennie Rodriguez-Moore
Record Staff Writer
November 03, 2012 12:00 AM
STOCKTON - A 30-year-old man was arraigned in Stockton on Friday for the murder of a woman found in Pleasanton inside a trash can and whose identity had been unknown for months.
Javier Prado Sandoval is charged with premeditated murder, infliction of corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant and enhancements of domestic violence and great bodily injury in the slaying of Ana Flores-Pineda.
Flores-Pineda, 25, was an employee at Sahuayo Market, a Mexican grocery store on Waterloo Road, and had last reported to her job May 2. Friends reported her missing in June.
Authorities have matched the remains of a body found by a Pleasanton resident in the 11000 block of Dublin Canyon Road May 24 to DNA taken from the victim's siblings in Mexico, said San Joaquin Deputy District Attorney Mark Ott.
Flores-Pineda was found on a rural road south of Interstate 580 and west of Interstate 680. Her body had been decomposing in the trash bin, indicating she died at least several days before the discovery.
Flores-Pineda and Sandoval were both undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
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Ott declined to provide the woman's manner of death; although, he linked it to domestic violence.
Stockton police believe the murder likely took place at or near where Sandoval was arrested in the 4500 block of McGaw Street in Stockton. more at link:
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