COLUMBIA, S.C.—A man charged with killing two sisters in South Carolina 12 years ago but who disappeared out of the legal system after he was found incompetent to stand trial was arrested Thursday in Colorado after authorities reinstated his charges, a sheriff’s office and a family attorney said.
Williamsburg County deputies began looking for Joseph Jermaine Brand on Tuesday after he was charged for failure to appear for not returning to face the murder charges after treatment and release from a group home in 2016, family attorney Lori Murray said Thursday night.
In this undated photo released by the Mitchum Family in May 2020 shows Thelma Haddock, left, and her sister, Naomi Johnson. Authorities said they were killed in Kingstree, S.C., in Oct., 2010 and the man charged in their killing was sent for mental treatment and disappeared until the family saw him back in their small town in 2020 and realized his charges were gone. (Mitchum Family via AP)
Murray said investigators eventually were able to track Brand’s cellphone, first getting a ping Thursday at the airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, then the airport in Dallas, and then in Pueblo, Colorado, near where his brother lives. There, police caught up to him and took him into custody, Murray said.
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