Still Missing CA - LaDexter Pelt & John Dubose Jr, from AL, visiting friends in Sacramento, 5 Nov 2021 *Arrest*

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Gridley police said they have found cell phones believed to belong to two Alabama men who have been missing since earlier this month, as well as surveillance footage of their last known location.

LaDexter Pelt and John Dubose Jr. of Alabama have been missing since Nov. 5. Family members said the pair were visiting friends in the Sacramento area.

Police in Gridley told FOX40 Pelt and Dubose Jr. were last seen in their city, about an hour north of downtown Sacramento. The families said neither man has been to Gridley before, and they have no acquaintances in the area.


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2016 LaDexter Pelt arrest:

Three people, including the owner of Dr. Rock's nightclub, are in custody after a shooting incident in the early hours of Feb. 14.

Avery Lynn Hughes, 23, and LaDexter Tequan Pelt, 19, both of Eutaw, face several charges ranging from attempted murder to assault.

Nightclub owner, 2 others arrested in Greene Co. shooting

2019 LaDexter Pelt arrest:

The Eutaw Police Department made six additional arrests in connection with the recent shootings in the Branch Heights community in Eutaw. On August 13, LaDexter Pelt, 22, of Eutaw, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for charges stemming from the recent shooting – reckless endangerment, attempt to commit murder, and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling/vehicle.

https://greenecodemocrat.com/tag/ladexter-pelt/

BRANCH HEIGHTS SHOOTING UPDATE: TWO SUSPECTS APPREHENDED - WVUA23
 
cvaldez1975 said:
Police find cell phones, surveillance video of missing Alabama men who disappeared in Sacramento area

from link - "While coordinating their efforts with the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office, investigators learned that a hunter found a cell phone belonging to Dubose Jr. in the Sutter Bypass Wildlife Area, near the Feather River Bridge crossing."
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Also, from the above link:

. Surveillance footage obtained by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office shows the men getting into a dark blue, four-door sedan, potentially a Nissan or Toyota, at the airport.
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So, the vehicle they got into has not been located, just the phone at the Sutter Bypass Wildlife Area. And neither of the two young men.

Hmmmm.

I don't like the sound of this, either.

JMVHO.
 
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Unsolved said:
2016 LaDexter Pelt arrest:

Three people, including the owner of Dr. Rock's nightclub, are in custody after a shooting incident in the early hours of Feb. 14.

Avery Lynn Hughes, 23, and LaDexter Tequan Pelt, 19, both of Eutaw, face several charges ranging from attempted murder to assault.

Nightclub owner, 2 others arrested in Greene Co. shooting

2019 LaDexter Pelt arrest:

The Eutaw Police Department made six additional arrests in connection with the recent shootings in the Branch Heights community in Eutaw. On August 13, LaDexter Pelt, 22, of Eutaw, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for charges stemming from the recent shooting – reckless endangerment, attempt to commit murder, and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling/vehicle.

LaDexter Pelt – Greene County Democrat

BRANCH HEIGHTS SHOOTING UPDATE: TWO SUSPECTS APPREHENDED - WVUA23
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I saw this as well. Maybe it’s connected? Hoping they’re found safe.

IMO
 
cvaldez1975 said:
im gonna have to speculate. i wonder what the purpose of the trip was. just brainstorming.
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Hmm, maybe spending the $20K PPP (Covid $$$) LaDexter got on something (don't know what). But maybe something that other (jealous) people might be aware of?

I hope they're both OK and also hope they didn't in over their heads on whatever.

LADEXTER PELT, Eutaw, AL - PPP Loan Details
 
2 Alabama men missing in California presumed murdered; 2 suspects charged


“The Butte County Sheriff’s Office in California on Tuesday said detectives from multiple divisions within the sheriff’s office located evidenced that led them to believe Pelt and Dubose were murdered at a residence in Gridley, Calif.
Detectives also found evidence suggesting Ricardo Banuelos-Villarreal, 30, and Alfredo Banuelos-Villarreal, 35, murdered the two Alabama men and hid their bodies.”
 
Mert said:
2 Alabama men missing in California presumed murdered; 2 suspects charged


“The Butte County Sheriff’s Office in California on Tuesday said detectives from multiple divisions within the sheriff’s office located evidenced that led them to believe Pelt and Dubose were murdered at a residence in Gridley, Calif.
Detectives also found evidence suggesting Ricardo Banuelos-Villarreal, 30, and Alfredo Banuelos-Villarreal, 35, murdered the two Alabama men and hid their bodies.”
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i knew it.
 
How did LP get a PPP loan? He had no real business!! His "business name" is HIS NAME!!! It says "female owned" - did I get LP's gender wrong? I thought LP was male...
 

Butte County District Attorney

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
May 3, 2022

PRELIMINARY HEARING CONCLUDES FOR DOUBLE MURDER SUSPECT

A Gridley man was held to answer today following a preliminary hearing for the murder of two Alabama men, whose bodies remain missing.

Butte County Superior Court Judge Kristen Lucena found there was sufficient evidence presented by the prosecution during the two-day hearing to order Ricardo Banuelos, 30, of Gridley, to stand trial for both counts of murder.

Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey said Banuelos is charged with two counts of murder. If convicted, Banuelos faces life without the possibility of parole.

Ramsey said the case began with an investigation launched in November of 2021 when family members of the two men from Alabama reported the men had come to Gridley, but failed to return. The investigation revealed Banuelos had previously been sending commercial amounts of marijuana to the men in Alabama. Evidence showed that the men flew out to California on November 4, 2021 and were meet by Banuelos and his brother, Alfredo, at the Sacramento Airport. Cell phone photos and video sent by the Alabama men to family members showed them to be at Banuelos’ residence on East Evans Reimer Road in Gridley on November 4, before they vanished.

Friends and family of both John Dubose Jr., 20 of Selma, Alabama, and Ladexter Pelt, 25 of Eutaw, Alabama, told investigators they had no contact with either man since November 4, 2021.

Physical evidence, including blood DNA matching back to one of the men, was found in a detached garage at Banuelos’ residence.

Ramsey said the bodies of the two missing men have not been located.

After the preliminary hearing, the defense requested Banuelos be released on bail. Judge Lucena denied the request and ordered Banuelos to be held without bail.

Ramsey said investigators are actively searching for Ricardo Banuelos’s brother, Alfredo Banuelos, 36, who is also wanted for murder in connection with this case.

Ricardo Banuelos is next due in court on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at 8:30 at which time the court will select a date for the jury trial.

Ramsey encouraged anyone with information about this case, the location of the victims’ bodies or the whereabouts of Alfredo Banuelos to contact Butte County Sheriff’s detectives at (530) 538-7671.
 
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