Calder slaying suspect still in Mexican custody

The suspect in the stabbing death of former Incline Village resident Judy Calder, Mohammed Kamalaudeen, is still in a Mexico City jail awaiting extradition to the United States.

Police believe Calder, a 30-year resident of Incline Village and former professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, was allegedly stabbed by Kamalaudeen in Sparks on Aug. 18, 2007.

Calder had been staying at the John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks since the night of Aug. 17 because she was working at UNR.

Calder often stayed in the Reno area during the weekends when she had university work to do. James Calder, her husband of 30 years, was supposed to meet her in Sparks but was detained in Incline because of a malfunctioning hot water heater in the couple's home.

Sparks police said Kamalaudeen stabbed Judy Calder in the chest twice while she was in the warehouse of Imaging Technologies, a business the Calder family owned where Kamalaudeen was an associate.

After the alleged murder, Kamalaudeen and an accomplice are suspected of loading Judy Calder's body into a white economy van.

James Calder reported Judy Calder's disappearance in the afternoon of Sunday, Aug. 19, after repeated calls to his wife's cell phone were not returned.

Calder's body was discovered by two hunters in a rural area of Nevada 40 miles north of Wells on Aug. 26.

According to Sparks Police Department Detective Steve Asher, Kamalaudeen, who has gone by the aliases of Ricky Barge and Omar Burak, fled into Mexico from the country's border with Arizona sometime in early September 2007.

Washoe County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Hahn, who is now handling the case, said extradition hearings take a long time.

"Right now we're just sort of waiting on the office of international affairs. These things can take months, sometimes years. We're hoping for a quick resolution, but as of now, we just don't know," Hahn said.

William Felner, a spokesman with the Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs, said the extradition proceedings are continuing forward, and offered no timeline for Kamalaudeen's return to the United States.

When he is returned to the United States, Hahn said Kamalaudeen would be subject to prosecution immediately.