Washington man accused of following trucker for hundreds of miles, murdering him in Utah
Charges have been filed and an arrest warrant has been issued for the murder of a truck driver found stabbed to death in the sleeper cab of a tractor-trailer on an I-80 on-ramp in Tooele County, Utah.
The warrant was signed by a Utah Third District Court judge on Tuesday after Jaswinder Singh Dhillon, 46, of Ridgefield, Washington, was officially charged with aggravated murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Jaspinder Singh of California.
Both charges are first-degree felonies.
Singh was found dead by on Sept. 26 when a coworker noticed his GPS had stopped moving. The coworker went to the truck's location, where Singh was found with stab wounds to his neck and lower extremities, according to charging documents.
Investigators poring over surveillance footage and license plate reader data found that Singh's truck was constantly being followed by an individual driving a white Mercedes.
The vehicle, and an individual wearing a hooded jacket, is seen arriving at and possibly surveilling Singh's semi at multiple stops once inside the state. It's not clear how long the Mercedes had been following Singh, but video evidence shows it was over a course of at least 300 miles, where the car is seen pulling into a gas station a few minutes behind Singh's truck in Winnemucca, Nevada.
It's more than a four-hour drive on I-80 from Winnemucca to Delle, Utah, where the occupant is seen approaching Singh's parked truck before the semi eventually pulls away from the station's parking lot.
The truck's GPS data shows the truck eventually made its way to the on-ramp near I-80 mile marker 70, where it parked and stayed put until Singh's coworker stopped to investigate.
The white Mercedes was registered to Dhillon, who also matched the description of the hooded individual who had been tailing the tractor-trailer.
Authorities in Clark County, Washington, where Dhillon resides, arrested a man Wednesday who was booked on suspicion of felony charges and is listed as a fugitive.
It wasn't immediately confirmed if the Jaswinder Singh Dhillon who was booked into jail is the same Jaswinder Singh Dhillon wanted for the murder of Jasminder Singh.
Other than a person's name, their booking date and the charges, details on a person's arrest in Washington are confidential under state law.
The Dhillon arrested Wednesday has only "fugitive" listed in the charges section.
Washington has hundreds of residents named Jaswinder Singh Dhillon, which is a common name in the Sikh tradition of equality.
