Suspect finally booked into Sarasota County Jail after arrest in Louisiana
The 41-year-old suspect in the death of a woman who lived in a Ringling Boulevard apartment in Sarasota finally was booked into the county jail on Feb. 19 on a murder charge, The Sarasota News Leader has learned.
Djalma Johan Gordon, of 2260 Ringling Blvd., Sarasota, was taken into custody in the West Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana after a traffic stop on Interstate 4, the Sarasota Police Department reported early this month.
During Gordon’s first appearance in the 12th Judicial Circuit Court, on Feb. 21, Circuit Judge Thomas Krug ordered that he be held without bond, court records show. A form that King signed noted that the victim — identified in the arrest warrant as Valerie Nicole Green — had 17 blunt-force trauma marks on her head, as well as an indication of strangulation. Further, the form said, the Police Department had obtained video evidence of Gordon “going in and out of [the] apartment [complex]” where Green was found to be deceased, as well as a shoe print in blood…