Stephen David Royds under investigation for selling and possessing cocaine and being involved in a death.
Police have found the "well preserved" body of a woman packed in a container with dry ice in a hotel room in California.
Detectives were searching the room in a cocaine investigation when the discovered the fully clothed body in large plastic storage container at a Newport Beach hotel, the Associated Press reports. "It's definitely weird," Sergeant Evan Sailor said of finding the body in the upscale complex.
The woman has been identified as Monique Trepp, 33, and police said it is unclear how long she has been dead for. Medical examiner Dan Akin said an autopsy of the body was "inconclusive" but the woman's death did not appear to be suspicious. Police were investigating whether the man who rented the hotel room, Stephen David Royds, was involved in the death. Royds is already under investigation for selling and possessing cocaine, and is being held on $32,000 bail.
Detectives were searching the room in a cocaine investigation when the discovered the fully clothed body in large plastic storage container at a Newport Beach hotel, the Associated Press reports. "It's definitely weird," Sergeant Evan Sailor said of finding the body in the upscale complex.
The woman has been identified as Monique Trepp, 33, and police said it is unclear how long she has been dead for. Medical examiner Dan Akin said an autopsy of the body was "inconclusive" but the woman's death did not appear to be suspicious. Police were investigating whether the man who rented the hotel room, Stephen David Royds, was involved in the death. Royds is already under investigation for selling and possessing cocaine, and is being held on $32,000 bail.
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