Lakewood police arrested a 41-year-old man and charged him with the housebreaking and homicide of an aged girl in her dwelling this week, in keeping with a news launch from the division.
Arthur Joseph Maestas IV was charged with first-degree homicide, first-degree arson, first-degree housebreaking and a parole violation.
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LK25-036770A person has been arrested following a housebreaking turned murder over the weekend that killed an 83-year-old Lakewood girl.
On 12/6/25 at roughly 7:10 P.M., Lakewood Police had been referred to as to a house on the… pic.twitter.com/7KEyDhcV3E
— Lakewood Police Dept. (@LakewoodPDCO) December 11, 2025
On Dec. 6, one in every of 83-year-old Elizabeth Johnson’s youngsters got here to verify on her and located her useless inside her dwelling within the 300 block of South Kendall Street in japanese Lakewood. A window had been damaged in and the house had been ransacked. It additionally appeared {that a} fireplace had been began, in keeping with Lakewood police.
Maestas is held within the Jefferson County jail. The division didn’t present additional particulars on how they related Maestas to the crime.
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