A woman was arrested Thursday after a man was found dead inside a burned car in North Las Vegas last month.

Marcella Patterson, 42, was booked into the North Las Vegas jail on suspicion of open murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and third-degree arson.

Patterson’s arrest report states that phone records placed her near the 3200 block of Mary Dee Avenue, close to Civic Center Drive and Cheyenne Avenue, around the time that a white Lexus, containing a man in the passenger seat, was set on fire on Aug. 17.

Officers with the North Las Vegas Police Department responded to the scene and found 32-year-old David Weaver dead, “slumped over” the center console in the passenger seat of the burned vehicle.

During Weaver’s autopsy, a doctor ruled his death a homicide and noted that he had a singl

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