A 2012 mug shot of Jesse Matthew(Photo: Charlottesville Police Department)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The man wanted in the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham is in custody in Galveston, Texas, Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo said Wednesday.
At a brief news conference, Longo did not detail how Jesse Matthew, 32, was taken into custody or if any evidence relating to the missing student was recovered.
Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset said Matthew was found on the beach near the Gilchrist community on the Bolivar Penninsula, a strip of land on the Gulf Coast northeast of the city of Galveston, GalvestonDailyNews.com reported. He was found about 3:30 p.m. local time Wednesday.
That location is more than 1,200 miles from Charlottesville.
Graham, 18, disappeared early in the morning of Sept. 13 and has been the object of a search.
Matthew has been charged with abduction with intent to defile and is represented by attorney James Camblos, who was commonwealth attorney for Albemarle County for 16 years.
Charlottesville police said they obtained an arrest warrant for Matthew, who they believe was the last person seen with Graham.
Before Longo announced that Matthew was in custody, Camblos said he spoke with the suspect but wouldn't say if he knew Matthew's whereabouts.
Missing University of Virginia student Hannah Elizabeth Graham has been missing since early Saturday, Sept. 13.(Photo: AP)
Matthew is seen on two surveillance videos with Graham the night that she went missing. Police said they have reason to believe Graham got into Matthew's car. After removing clothes from the car and Matthew's apartment for DNA testing, police released a wanted poster for him.
Police had said they believed Matthew was in his sister's 1997 light blue Nissan Sentra with Virginia tags VAC4575.
Matthew is a nursing assistant at the University of Virginia Hospital. He has been suspended without pay as a result of the criminal charge.
Before Hannah Graham disappeared
What police know about the hours before
Hannah Graham disappeared
from Charlottesville, Va., near the University of Virginia campus, come mostly from businesses' surveillance cameras. A map locates the places in this timeline.
Sept. 12
1. 9:30 p.m. ET. Graham is captured on Camden Plaza Apartments surveillance video in a hallway a few blocks away from the GrandMarc apartments (1) where she lives.
2. 11:50 p.m. Graham's friends meet her at Camden Plaza Apartments on 14th Street Northwest. It is the last time they see her.
Sept. 13
3. 12:46 a.m. Graham is captured on surveillance video at McGrady's Pub on Grady Avenue. Police say she was having a conversation with a man and appeared drunk.
4. 1 a.m. Graham is captured on surveillance video at a Shell gas station on Preston Avenue across railroad tracks from her apartment and the U.Va. campus. She's seen running then walking.
5. 1:06 a.m. Graham is captured on surveillance video at Sal's Pizza on East Main Street. A white man walks into the camera's view, looks over his shoulder then steps into a doorway. Graham walks past him and then he starts walking behind her. He later came to police and told them he was following Graham because she seemed distressed and he wanted to make sure she was safe.
6. 1:08 a.m. Graham is captured on surveillance video at Tuel's Jewelers on East Main Street. The video shows the man walking some distance behind her.
7. After 1:08 a.m. Graham and a man with dreadlocks enter Tempo Restaurant & Bar on Fifth Street Southeast. He buys alcohol, they stay 15 minutes and leave together.
• 1:20 a.m. Graham texts friends, "I'm coming to a party...but I'm lost." It was the last time she had contact with anyone. If her phone pinpointed her location, police have not released the information, and police did not clarify whether the text was sent before or after leaving the bar.
On Sept. 19, police receive a warrant to search a car and condo (8) about 3 miles northwest from where Graham was last seen.
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