Detectives say a GPS tracking device on the ankle of a parolee led to his arrest for a murder in Santa Barbara. The body of a woman was found in the parking lot of a business on lower State Street street Monday morning.
Santa Barbara police detectives say they learned about a possible suspect who was in the area where the body was found. They say they were able to use tracking software, as well as physical evidence to link him to the crime.
Investigators then used the tracking device to find the man on the 2900 block of State Street. Gabriel Jose Zepeda was arrested on murder and robbery charges. They say he was a transient, who was just released from the Main Santa Barbara County Jail last week.
The 46-year-old man isn't believed to have known the victim. There's no word on the cause of death. The name of the woman hasn't been released yet. She was a homeless woman believed to be in her 40s or 50s.
