Prince Is Returned to Face Charges in Slayings : Crime: Photographers still barred from taking pictures of the face of suspect in deaths of 5 women.

Serial killer suspect Cleophus Prince Jr. was returned to San Diego late Friday afternoon to face charges in the stabbing deaths of five women in Clairemont and University City.

Security concerns cloaked the return of the 23-year-old man as he and five federal marshals landed in Los Angeles and Prince was returned to San Diego by car. Prince was taken to a nearby hospital for a physical examination, then to San Diego police headquarters downtown for interviews and tests before being booked into County Jail at 7:21 p.m.

The federal marshals bringing Prince from his hometown of Birmingham, Ala., also were returning a prisoner to Los Angeles on the same trip, police said. Prince’s return was delayed for several hours while U.S. marshals from San Diego drove to Los Angeles and brought him to San Diego by car.

Police continued to bar photographers from taking pictures of Prince’s face. A lineup is scheduled Monday, and Prince will be charged with five counts of murder and possibly other charges at an arraignment scheduled later Monday afternoon.

Prince has been held in Birmingham since his arrest March 3 and has been fighting attempts to extradite him to face charges that he stabbed to death five women from January to September last year.

Tiffany Paige Schultz, a 20-year-old San Diego State University student, was found stabbed to death in her Buena Vista Gardens apartment in Clairemont on Jan. 12, 1990. Prince was living in the same Cowley Way apartment complex at the time. On Feb. 16, Janene Marie Weinhold, a 21-year-old UC San Diego student, was found slain in her Clairemont Drive apartment, only a few doors away from where Prince lived. On April 3, Holly Suzanne Tarr, an 18-year-old high school senior visiting from Michigan, was found dead in her brother’s Buena Vista Gardens apartment.

Pamela Gail Clark, 42, and her daughter, Amber, 18, were found stabbed to death in their Honors Drive home in University City on Sept. 13.

San Diego police arrested Prince on an outstanding traffic warrant in February in the parking lot of the Family Fitness Center on Miramar Road, a day after he allegedly tried to burglarize the Scripps Ranch home of a fitness club member. One of the slain women, Pamela Clark, also was a member of the fitness club.

After his February arrest on traffic and attempted burglary charges, the district attorney’s office requested that he be held on $50,000 bail, but Prince was released before the necessary paperwork reached the courts.

Earlier this week, after an Alabama appeals court refused to stay his extradition, Prince’s lawyer, Roger Appell, said his client would cease his fight against returning to San Diego.