DURHAM -- Late Tuesday night, police arrested two members of a polygamist group suspected of murder.
Neither Peter Lucas Moses Jr., 27, nor Vania Rae Sisk, 25, has been charged with murder. But search warrants released in North Carolina and Colorado show that Durham police have been investigating them in connection with the slayings of Sisk's 5-year-old son Jadon Higganbothan and Antoinetta McKoy, a woman reported missing in February after she tried to escape from Moses.
Police surrounded the house at 121 Dunstan Ave. Tuesday night, arresting Moses on charges of second-degree kidnapping, assault by pointing a gun, assault on a female, communicating threats and failing to appear in court on prior charges of discharging a gun inside city limits and writing worthless check.
Neither Peter Lucas Moses Jr., 27, nor Vania Rae Sisk, 25, has been charged with murder. But search warrants released in North Carolina and Colorado show that Durham police have been investigating them in connection with the slayings of Sisk's 5-year-old son Jadon Higganbothan and Antoinetta McKoy, a woman reported missing in February after she tried to escape from Moses.
Police surrounded the house at 121 Dunstan Ave. Tuesday night, arresting Moses on charges of second-degree kidnapping, assault by pointing a gun, assault on a female, communicating threats and failing to appear in court on prior charges of discharging a gun inside city limits and writing worthless check.
Sisk was arrested for failing to appear in court on a Feb. 18 marijuana possession charge.
After police began investigating in February, Sisk, Moses, his parents and others fled to Colorado, where three other of Sisk's children and six children belonging to other women in the group were taken by the Teller County Department of Social Services and returned to North Carolina.
Police ordered several other people out of the apartment at 121B Dustan Ave. Tuesday night but did not say whether charges were being filed against any of them.
A Durham Police mobile substation and smaller crime lab unit were parked at 2109 Pear Tree Lane, where the group had lived before fleeing the state. An informant had told police that Moses shot the boy to death at that house, hid his body in the attic and later removed it.
Investigators searched the house, nearby woods and a boarded-up house at 2310 So Hi Drive on Monday. Detectives previously found blood, a fired bullet, a shell casing and evidence of "overt cleaning" at 2109 Pear Tree Lane, a search warrant says.
After police began investigating in February, Sisk, Moses, his parents and others fled to Colorado, where three other of Sisk's children and six children belonging to other women in the group were taken by the Teller County Department of Social Services and returned to North Carolina.
Police ordered several other people out of the apartment at 121B Dustan Ave. Tuesday night but did not say whether charges were being filed against any of them.
A Durham Police mobile substation and smaller crime lab unit were parked at 2109 Pear Tree Lane, where the group had lived before fleeing the state. An informant had told police that Moses shot the boy to death at that house, hid his body in the attic and later removed it.
Investigators searched the house, nearby woods and a boarded-up house at 2310 So Hi Drive on Monday. Detectives previously found blood, a fired bullet, a shell casing and evidence of "overt cleaning" at 2109 Pear Tree Lane, a search warrant says.
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