Suspect in 2018 Fresno County murder pleads not guilty

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The antheral believed to beryllium connected to a 2018 Fresno County execution has pleaded not guilty.

38-year-old Anthony Yepez was arrested successful aboriginal September.

Back successful 2018, Fresno County sheriff's deputies were called to a vacant location adjacent Willow and Jensen, wherever a antheral looking for scrap metallic recovered a dormant body.

That idiosyncratic was aboriginal identified arsenic 34-year-old Kang Vang Her, and it was determined helium suffered a fatal coiled to his head.

Following a year-long investigation, successful 2025, authorities received caller accusation tying Yepez to the killing.

On Wednesday, Yepez denied the charges.

His bail remains acceptable astatine $1 million.

He is scheduled to look successful tribunal again successful October.