Suspects in teacher kidnapping going back to Mont.


February 14, 2012 at 11:36a.m.

Suspects in teacher kidnapping going back to Mont.

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has ordered two suspects in the disappearance of a Montana math teacher to be moved to Montana for trial.

District Judge David Nelson ordered the extradition of 47-year-old Lester Vann Waters Jr. and 22-year-old Michael Keith Spell during hearings today in Williston, N.D.

Waters and Spell are charged with aggravated kidnapping in the disappearance of 43-year-old Sherry Arnold of Sidney, Mont.

Arnold disappeared Jan. 7 shortly after she left her home for a run. Authorities have said she is presumed dead but her body hasn’t been found.

Waters and Spell will be moved from Williston to the Richland County jail in Sidney, Mont., today.

Richland County prosecutor Mike Weber says the pair could appear in court in Montana today or Wednesday.