Nearly 2 1⁄2 months after the grisly discovery of the dismembered body of a 34-year-old man in Waipio, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force captured a 46-year-old suspect in California.
The task force arrested the man at 3:45 p.m. Monday in California on a grand jury warrant and held him in lieu of $5 million bail. An Oahu grand jury indicted the man Nov. 26 on the charge of second-degree murder, police said.
Michelle Yu, spokeswoman for the Honolulu Police Department, said she could not provide the suspect’s name since he has not yet been booked in Honolulu. The U.S. Marshals Service did not return a call to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
An Oahu couple discovered a decapitated torso Sept. 15 off Mililani Cemetery Road in Waipio. Police found other body parts in the area, and the Medical Examiner’s Office identified the body as that of Alexis Gonzales.
Gonzales, known by most as "Gonzo," moved in with friends in Kalihi about two months before his death, his former girlfriend Rachel Main told the Star-Advertiser on Sept. 19 through a Facebook message.
He "went missing a month ago," she said, and she began calling and texting his roommate to see if he had heard from him, but he hadn’t.
Main said it wasn’t like him to go for long without anyone seeing him, especially in Waikiki, where he had lived with different friends and had also been homeless. She said he struggled with drugs and alcohol but "didn’t deserve this."
Gonzales was originally from Long Beach, Calif., according to his Facebook page.
He loved being out at sea fishing and also loved to play his guitar, Main said.
