Apr 21, 2009 12:32 am US/Pacific
Huckaby May Be Tied To Young Girl's Drugging
TRACY (CBS 5) ―
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Melissa Huckaby during her recent court appearance.
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Tracy police said Monday that a woman accused in the rape, kidnapping and slaying of an 8-year-old neighbor girl, may be connected to another case in which a 7-year-old girl was drugged with muscle relaxers.
Melissa Huckaby, 28, is currently jailed on murder and molestation charges in the death of young Sandra Cantu, whose body was found on April 10 stuffed inside a suitcase submerged in an irrigation pond.
Police indicated that Huckaby is now also a suspect in a case in which another young girl went missing for four hours in January.
Police said the girl was taken by a suspect in a purple Kia Sportage to a nearby park and returned home under the influence of the muscle relaxer Benzodiazepines, which a doctor later confirmed.
"She couldn't stand up without help. She couldn't walk. Every time she'd try to walk, she'd fall," said the girl's 18-year-old sister, who spoke to CBS 5 on the condition that her name not be used.
Police impouned a purple Kia Sportage registered to Huckaby after arresting her for Cantu's murder.
The drugged girl and her family reside in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park, which is where Huckaby and Cantu also lived.
In a phone interview with CBS 5 just hours before her arrest for Cantu's murder, Huckaby said she was questioned by police at the time of the incident involving the drugged girl.
Huckaby had claimed she had permission from the girl's grandmother to take her to the park and denied rumors of any wrongdoing.
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