Slayings Suspect Held in Taiwan
A suspect in the January killings of two women in their Baldwin Park home was arrested in Taiwan and will be tried in that nation, police said Wednesday.
Chin Chen Hwang, 55, strangled the women in an argument over a gambling debt one of them assertedly owed him, Baldwin Park officers allege.
Police in Taiwan arrested Hwang on information supplied by police and Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives.
Because there is no formal extradition treaty between Taiwan and the United States, Hwang will be tried there for the killings, Baldwin Park police said.
The bodies of Mai Kwang Ping, 28, and her mother-in-law Pichu Chang, 50, were found tied, head-to-head and bound with clothesline. Ping’s 7-month-old daughter was also in the house, but was unharmed.
Police said they learned that Chang owed the suspect “thousands of dollars” won in mah-jongg games and that he was pressing her for the money to pay off his own gambling debts.
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