A mother who went on the run two years ago after her 5-year-old son was found dead inside a suitcase in the Indiana woods was arrested in a suburb of Los Angeles after someone recognized her and called police.
Dejuane L. Anderson was taken into custody March 14 in Arcadia, California, after authorities received a tip from an alert citizen.
Local authorities moved in alongside the U.S. Marshals Service, spotting Anderson as she tried to board a public train and placed her in handcuffs.
She is being held at the Los Angeles Police Department detention facility, pending extradition back to Indiana to face arraignment.
She faces charges of murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, and obstruction of justice in the April 2022 death of her 5-year-old son, Cairo Jordan, who was found discarded in a heavily wooded area off Holder Road in South East Washington County — his body stuffed inside a carry-on size luggage bag.
Anderson’s arrest comes several months after her admitted accomplice, Dawn Elaine Coleman, received a 25-year sentence in November after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit murder while confessing that she helped cover up the child’s death.
Previously, Coleman made a deal with prosecutors to eventually testify against Anderson in exchange for a lighter sentence as several charges against her were dismissed, including neglect of a dependent resulting in death, aiding or inducing murder, and obstruction of justice.
Following Anderson’s arrest, investigators with the Indiana State Police Department immediately flew to California to try to ascertain her movements and whether she had help to remain a fugitive.
Ironically, police had been searching for Anderson in the Los Angeles area and believe she could have spent part of her time on the lam lying low in San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, or Houston.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Carey Huls expressed relief that Anderson was finally behind bars but…
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