WASHINGTON " A Salvadoran immigrant in prison for attacking two women joggers in the park where Chandra Levy's remains were found is named in an arrest warrant issued Tuesday in connection with the former federal intern's slaying.
An individual close to the investigation told The Associated Press said that the warrant seeks the arrest of Ingmar Guandique, 27, who is in federal prison in Adelanto, Calif. The person asked to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to discuss the case.
A copy of the arrest warrant and supporting documents were not immediately available.
The warrant is the latest development in an investigation that had gone cold for years after destroying the career of former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit of California.
Investigators in 2002 questioned Guandique in Levy's slaying after he was convicted of attacking the women in Washington's Rock Creek Park. He was not charged at the time.
Levy was 24 and had just completed an internship with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared in May 2001 after leaving her Washington, D.C., apartment. The Modesto, Calif., woman was wearing jogging clothes when she vanished, and a man walking his dog found her skull and bones in the park a year later.
Authorities questioned Condit, her congressman, in the disappearance, but he was never a suspect in her death. Condit, a popular Democrat for a dozen years in his district, was reportedly having an affair with Levy, and the negative publicity from the case was cited as the main reason for his overwhelming primary loss in 2002.
On Fed. 20, Levy's parents, Robert and Susan, said District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier had told them an arrest was coming within days.
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