COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. -- A Hopewell man was arrested Wednesday in connection to the murder of a woman in Colonial Heights.
57-year-old Raymont Tasco was arrested at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia after Colonial Heights police were granted a warrant for his arrest.
On the morning of April 18, 36-year-old Cynthia Chante Soloman was found dead in the Appomattox River near Roslyn Landing Park.
Tasco was charged with first-degree murder in connection to Soloman's death, as well as use of a firearm in the commission of felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
He is currently being held in an Atlanta jail, while he awaits extradition to Virginia.
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