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COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. – A wanted Texas<\/a> man who is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend was found driving through Arizona and was arrested on May 30<\/a> by Dept. of Public Safety troopers.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n “AZDPS detectives were notified of an attempt to locate issued out of Palestine, Texas, for a homicide suspect believed to be traveling westbound on Interstate 10 in a white GMC pickup truck. Through coordinated efforts with Highway Patrol state troopers, the suspect vehicle was located on I-10 near Benson,” the agency said in a June 3 news release.<\/p>\n Benson Police, troopers and detectives stopped the suspect, Bruce Kenton Jeffers, 65, and arrested him.<\/p>\n He was wanted by the Anderson County Sheriff\u2019s Office in connection to a May 29 homicide. “He was arrested on a full-extradition warrant for violating bond conditions and was found to be in possession of a firearm at the time of his arrest,” DPS said.<\/p>\n Jeffers was booked into the Cochise County<\/a> Jail with a $300,000 bond. He’ll be extradited to Texas.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook<\/a> that the homicide victim is Jeffers’ ex-girlfriend, 54-year-old Joni Williams. She was found with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n If you have any information about this homicide, you’re asked to call the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas at 903-729-6068.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Arizona<\/a>Texas<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article 65-year-old Bruce Kenton Jeffers COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. – A wanted Texas man who is accused of killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8945,1046,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-321718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-az","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}