Pinole Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Murdering Girlfriend In 1999

PINOLE (CBS SF) -- More than a decade after a missing Diablo Valley College student's body turned up in the Nevada desert, her former boyfriend has been arrested and charged with her murder, police said Thursday.

Raymond Wong, 40, was arrested December 24 in Pinole on suspicion of committing the 1999 murder of 21-year-old college student Alice Sin, his son's mother.

Wong fled the country in 2009 to Beijing, China where he lived for the past two years, Pinole police Cmdr. Matthew Messier said.

KCBS' Tim Ryan Reports:

On December 19, federal authorities at San Francisco International Airport called the Pinole Police Department to alert them that Wong had re-entered the country, he said.

Messier said police arrested Wong for allegedly failing to register as a sex offender -- a requirement of his release from federal prison years earlier stemming from a child pornography possession conviction.

The former Pinole man bailed out of jail but was arrested again on Christmas Eve after police amassed additional evidence needed to arrest him for the decade-old murder.

Police said Wong reported his girlfriend missing in late November, 1999. Two months later, her body was found with four bullet wounds in rural Churchill County, Nevada, surrounded by shell casings.

Although police immediately considered Wong a person of interest in the case, he was never charged.

Wong was arraigned Thursday on murder charges in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Richmond.

He is being held in the Martinez Detention Facility without bail.

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