Canandaigua, N.Y. — State Police broke down the front door of a Geneva home in February as they moved in to arrest Precious Arzuaga, one of seven suspects accused in the killing of 24-year-old Sam Nordquist.

State police Investigator Brian Hotchkiss described the scene today during a pre-trial hearing in Nordquist’s murder case in Ontario County Court. Arzuaga, the main suspect, was arrested at her mother’s house.

Hotchkiss said he found Arzuaga sitting on a mattress on the floor in the front room of the house after they broke the door down. Hotchkiss had been there the day before to interview Arzuaga and several others about Nordquist.

Then, it was a missing person’s case.

But it became a murder case the next day, when Nordquist’s remains were found in a Yates County field.

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