ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, November 2, 1996 TAG: 9611040047
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: JON CAWLEY
A fugitive couple arrested Thursday in Bedford County on manslaughter warrants from New York will not fight extradition.
Tanya L. Elders, 23, and Brian A. Thomas, 27, both of Long Eddy, N.Y., waived their rights to extradition during a hearing Friday in Bedford County Circuit Court and will be transferred back to New York this morning by New York State Police, Virginia State Police Lt. Jim Ruhland said.
The couple are charged with first-degree manslaughter in the death of David J. Flint, 63, of Endicott, in south central New York, police said. Flint had been dead for several days, police believe, when he was found in his mobile home Oct.24.
Flint died of massive internal injuries and respiratory failure.
The arrests came after a three-day investigation when New York police traced the couple to a Body Camp residence.
Thomas and Elders had been staying at the home of a man, whose identity police have not released, since at least Oct. 20. The man, who knew Thomas, did not know the two were fugitives and will not be charged in connection with the arrests, Ruhland said.
State police arrested Elders while she used a pay phone on Virginia 24 about 1 p.m. and later arrested Thomas just off Virginia 721. Both gave "incriminating statements" at the time of their arrests, Ruhland said.
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