A man who acknowledged being with a Swampscott woman just before she disappeared in November has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in her death.
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Jason Fleury was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Hampton, Vir., after a grand jury issued a secret indictment last Friday charging him with murder, according to the Essex County District Attorney’s Office. He will be held overnight in Virginia and will be arraigned as a fugitive tomorrow.
Jason Fleury, 37, who had been living in Virginia, agreed Wednesday morning to waive extradition and return voluntarily, in custody, to Massachusetts, according to the district attorney’s spokeswoman, Carrie Kimball Monahan. If he waives extradition, he will be transported to Massachusetts, where he will be arraigned for murder in Salem Superior Court. Months of searching were fruitless until her body washed ashore on Kings Beach on Jan 28.
Jaimee Mendez, 25, of Swampscott, vanished November. 6 after calling friends and saying she was with a man in Lynn and wanted to leave. However, WAVY.com also found an address listed in Gloucester County for Fleury.
“She said, ‘Listen, I’m on this street I’m with this guy, he’s making me really nervous, I want to get out of here, ‘” her sister, Alyssa Mendez, told CBS Boston around the time of Jaimee’s disappearance.
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According to the newspaper article in The Daily Item of Lynn, Fleury said he knew Mendez through connections they had with a heroin dealer.
