Two women wanted in connection with a double murder case in Colorado have been arrested in northwestern Arizona, authorities said Wednesday.
Mohave County sheriff’s officials said 43-year-old Toni Gurule and 42-year-old Suzzette Salyer are being held without bond pending extradition.
They said the women were arrested by a SWAT team after a standoff Saturday at a home in Topock, a small community north of Lake Havasu City near the Arizona-California border.
Officials said chemical agents were deployed in the house, prompting Gurule to come out. After a second round of chemical agents were deployed, Salyer left the house.
Sheriff’s officials in Colorado’s Fremont County said Gurule and Salyer were among three people indicted April 30 on two counts each of first-degree murder and kidnapping, and had warrants issued for their arrest.
CBS Colorado reported that investigators obtained a court order in 2022 to collect DNA samples from the two suspects.
The charges stemmed from the deaths of 25-year-old Ryan Roth and 36-year-old Rodolfo Santillan-Reyes, authorities said.
The bodies of the two men were discovered in February 2022 in a Phantom Canyon canyon about 40 miles southwest of Colorado Springs.
Colorado authorities said a third suspect in the case — a 45-year-old man — was arrested last month on murder charges while in federal custody in Englewood on separate drug and weapons charges.
