Couple Held as Suspects in Man’s Disappearance
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Two former Santa Monica teachers were arraigned Friday before a Las Vegas federal magistrate who said “a strong finger of suspicion” suggests their involvement in the disappearance of a retired Glendale accountant.
Stanley Alan Hershey, 46, and his wife, Jan Vicki Fine, 37, pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy, illegal use of a banking card and transportation of a stolen vehicle across state lines.
They were arrested in Las Vegas driving a Suzuki car owned by Gordon T. Johnson, 62, who left Glendale last April with a 40-foot motor home and the four-wheel drive Suzuki to travel the country.
Hershey and Fine, who apparently met Johnson on the road, are “the subject of a murder investigation,” Asst. U.S. Atty. J. Gregory Damm told U.S. Magistrate Lawrence R. Leavitt at a hearing this week. Leavitt ordered the couple held without bail.
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