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NEWS 7
THE BATTALION Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Roundabout route mystery deepens
with federal prosecutor’s death in PA
Prosecutor’s roundabout route a mystery
Electronic records show Jonathan Luna’s car headed toward the
Philadelphia area on a circuitous path leading to a spot near
Denver, Pa., where he drowned after suffering 36 stab wounds.
Home of Luna
Luna’s body
discovered on
Dec. 4 at 5:30 a.m.
Luna leaves federal
courthouse on
Dec. 3 at 11:30 p.m.
Washington D.C. (Vj
MARYLAND
PENNSYLVANIA
Harrisburg
Lancaster
Denver Readin 9
FBI questions gas station
workers, seizes videotape
/Wilmington
' 1 Newark
DELAWARE
Dover
Philadelphia
Delaware
Bay
NEW
JERSEY
25 km
SOURCES: Associated Press: ESRI AP
By Brian Witte
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE — Electronic
toll records show a federal prose
cutor’s car took a roundabout
route from Maryland to the spot
in Pennsylvania where his body
was found, investigators say,
deepening the mystery sunound-
ing his slaying.
A federal law enforcement
official, speaking on condition of
anonymity, told The Associated
Press that Jonathan Luna’s car
passed through automated toll
booths on highways leading
toward the Philadelphia area.
The 38-year-old Luna was
found stabbed and drowned
around Thursday in a creek in
Lancaster County, Pa., his
bloodstained car idling nearby.
Investigators said they have
found nothing to indicate the
crime was connected to any cases
he handled, and they have been
looking into his private life.
Luna had traveled to
Lancaster County several times in
recent months, and authorities
were not immediately aware of
any work-related business that
would have taken him there.
With the investigation in its
fifth day, investigators trying to
reconstruct Luna’s final hours
released photos of his 2003 silver
Honda Accord, with his
University of North Carolina
license plate, in the hope that
someone would come forward
with information.
Officials earlier had said they
planned to release a timeline of
Luna’s movements, but a spokes
woman for U.S. Attorney
Thomas DiBiagio, said the infor
mation was not ready for release
by Monday afternoon.
According to courthouse
records, Luna left his office around
midnight Wednesday. A direct
route from Baltimore to Lancaster
County covers about 100 miles and
would take under two hours. The
route Luna took, however, covered
about 135 miles and would have
taken about 2 1/2 hours.
The source said Luna also
made a cash withdrawal along
the way and apparently used a
credit card to buy gas outside
Philadelphia.
FBI agents seized a surveil
lance video from an Exxon gas
station at a rest stop on Interstate
95 in Newark, Del., between
Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Agents also visited a Mobil sta
tion at the rest stop, asking if any
employees had seen Luna, said
Ann Cochran, the station manag
er. She said she did not know
whether they had.
Over the weekend, investi
gators showed pictures of Luna
to Lancaster County hotel own
ers and asked them to review
guest registers for Wednesday
and Thursday nights. They also
asked if the hotel owners had
security cameras.
Associated Press writers
Curt Anderson in Washington;
Matt Apuzzo in Baltimore;
Randall Chase in Newark, Del.,
and Mark Scolforo in Denver,
Pa., contributed to this report.
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