UPDATE: Maleah Davis’ Stepfather Is In Police Custody

UPDATE:

A bond has been set for Derion Vence, the person authorities imagine was the final particular person with lacking four-year-old Maleah Davis.

Vence was arrested for tampering with proof within the disappearance of his stepdaughter

Legislation enforcement has not confirmed whether or not the lady is useless, however investigators don’t suppose she remains to be alive.

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4-year-old Maleah Davis went lacking per week in the past and now her mom’s former fiancé has develop into the prime particular person of curiosity in her disappearance.

Derion Vence was supposedly watching his stepdaughter on Saturday (Might four) when she went lacking. He had advised police that he was on the best way to the airport to select up Maleah’s mom and had each Maleah and his 1-year-old son in his automotive.

On the best way, he claims he heard a “popping noise” and stopped his car as a result of he believed he had a flat tire and was knocked unconscious by three strangers who pulled up in a blue pickup truck. When he awoke a day later, he says that’s when he observed Maleah was gone.

Vence’s automotive was discovered two days in the past within the parking zone of a shopping center in Missouri Metropolis, Texas. The 26-year-old has now been charged on suspicion of tampering with proof, a human corpse, in accordance with Harris County jail’s web site.

Police in Houston have but to publicly announce physique has been discovered nonetheless investigators reportedly discovered blood proof linking Maleah to Vence’s condo.

Derion Vence was arrested on Saturday (Might 11) at a relative’s home in suburban Houston and a courtroom look is scheduled for Monday. Police beforehand spelled the person’s title as “Darion.”