LOS ANGELES (NewsNation) — A Minnesota man has been arrested on suspicion of killing Maleesa Mooney, an aspiring model whose body was found inside the refrigerator of her downtown Los Angeles apartment last year, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Wednesday.
Magnus Daniel Humphrey, 41, of Hopkins, Minnesota, was arrested on an “unrelated federal warrant” and is on federal probation for drug offenses, according to police.
Mooney, 31, had been bound, beaten, gagged and wedged inside a refrigerator inside her downtown Los Angeles apartment. Her body was discovered Sept. 12 when police conducted a welfare check.
Her sister, Jourdin Pauline, revealed to NewsNation in October that Mooney had damage to her entire body “from her head to her toes” and that she was pregnant.
Humphrey has waived extradition and was brought to L.A. to face a murder charge. An arraignment hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning.
No further information about his connection to Mooney or her death was released.
NewsNation affiliate KTLA in Los Angeles contributed to this report.