Last week, a murder suspect who had eluded authorities for more than three years was finally caught in Solano County. Jeremiah Marquis Macias Lacy, 27, of Vallejo, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol (CHP). Lacy had been wanted since a murder in Merced, California, in 2021. The arrest happened last Friday afternoon when an officer on routine patrol noticed Lacy driving without a seatbelt, according to a social media post by CHP-Solano.
When Lacy was unable to produce identification and gave the officer a bogus name along with other inaccurate information, the traffic stop became more heated. Because of the CHP officer’s persistence, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office became involved and brought a fingerprint reader. Their technology verified that the person in question was Lacy, who is wanted for $1.5 million for his suspected involvement in a robbery and deadly gunfight that left 33-year-old Christina Velez dead and another person gravely wounded.
The violent event on Merced’s East Main Street in October 2021 marked the beginning of Lacy’s flight story. Travis Rucks and Emari Lee Prescott, two of the crime’s collaborators, were previously arrested. Rucks was arrested after posing as someone else to police and Prescott after he was admitted to the hospital for injuries he had received during the incident. Up until this week, Lacy, the final suspect, had escaped capture.
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