Investigators in Arkansas have made an arrest in the death of a woman whose body was found stuffed into a plastic tote and dumped alongside a rural county road in February.
The St Francis County Sheriff’s Department said that boys riding four-wheelers found the tub containing the body of Troy Alexzandria Strope, 42, on February 20, on County Road 731, WHBQ reported. The body was identified a week later.
The sheriff’s department said on Thursday it had arrested 45-year-old Micah Lacy, charging him with first degree murder and abuse of a corpse. He is also facing drug and weapons charges, according to jail records.
Lacy is being held on a $1 million bond, and the sheriff’s department said more arrests are expected.
According to WREG, investigators searched a house they believed was connected to the murder and detained one person on drug charges in early March. It’s unknown if that person is Lacy or someone connected to him. Lacy was booked into jail on May 16, jail records say.
St. Francis County Sheriff Bobby May said at the time that two brothers lived in the house. He also said that the single crime lab in the state would take some time to complete testing on the items they removed from the house.
