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Restaurant Manager Arrested in Cori Desmond Slaying

TORRANCE -- A Redondo Beach restaurant manager has been arrested in the death of Cori Daye Desmond.

35-year old Tony Lopez Perez was arrested Thursday night after he went to sheriff's headquarters for questioning, said Cindy Beavers, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department.

Detectives said an anonymous tip led them to Perez, who sold his Dodge Durango and bought a new car after Desmond's slaying.

"Information was that Tony Perez, soon after the murder, was scrubbing and cleaning the inside of his Dodge Durango and sold his vehicle on the fourth of March to a dealership in the Los Angeles area," said Lt. Frank Gonzalez of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

Unknown evidence was recovered from the Durango, according to detectives.

Sheriff's Lt. Rick Els said Perez and Desmond did not know each other and that the motive was a sex assault.

Perez was booked on suspicion of murder and is being held without bail.

He will be arraigned next week.

Desmond, 28, was last seen February 15 leaving the Bac Street Lounge on Artesia Boulevard in Redondo Beach.

Her Jeep was found parked near the bar, but her body was found the next day in a bag at the side of a highway near Running Springs.

Investigators have not disclosed the cause of death, but said she appeared to suffer from blunt force trauma.

Mark Desmond printed at least 100 bumper stickers and handed them out to friends, family and businesses in Redondo Beach.

He says as long as he can keep this going, he won't give up.

"These people are still out there and this could happen to anybody's daughter... anybody."