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G-League player Chance Comanche arrested for Las Vegas murder, cut from Stockton Kings
View Date:2024-12-23 21:48:39
A G-League player is in police custody on suspicion of murder.
Chance Comanche is in Sacramento (California) County Jail after a woman went missing in Las Vegas earlier this month. On Sunday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released a statement saying that Comanche will be charged with open murder, a term in the state of Nevada that includes first-degree murder, second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. The department said the charge comes after they found the victim's remains in the desert of Henderson, Nev.
Comanche was arrested on Friday afternoon by members of the California FBI for a kidnapping charge in connection with the missing person case. He was not granted bail, per the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office. The center has played the past two seasons for the Stockton Kings, the G-League affiliate of the Sacramento Kings.
The Stockton Kings confirmed to USA TODAY Sports that they released Comanche. The team had no further comment. He was averaging 14 points and 7 rebounds a game this season.
Comanche's inmate record shows he was arrested without a warrant for a PC 1551.1 felony, which, according to California law states that a person may be arrested without a warrant "upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of any other state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year."
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KLAS, CBS' Las Vegas station, first reported that Comanche was taken into police custody after Marayna Rodgers, 23, went missing. Rodgers, who resides in Washington, was in Las Vegas visiting friends. She was reported missing on Dec. 6, a day after the Kings played the G-League Ignite at the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. The Kings then had a game on Dec. 7 against Rip City Remix in Portland, Oregon. Comanche played in both games.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said that Sakari Harnden, 19, was also arrested on Wednesday in Clark County, Nevada on a kidnapping charge in the case. She was identified as a friend of Rodgers' and reportedly met up with her on Dec. 5. with Comanche, who was identified as Harnden's boyfriend. Rodgers wasn't seen or heard from since.
Comanche, who played college basketball at Arizona, has a court date scheduled for Tuesday and is to be extradited to Nevada.
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