As police get an investigation underway, the woman's friends and family expressed frustration over investigators not taking her earlier disappearance seriously.
TEXAS CITY, Texas -- A man was arrested Friday after a 24-year-old's body was found in her trunk in Texas City, according to police.On Friday at about 1 p.m., Christopher Lee Maldonado was arrested during a traffic stop in connection to Angela Leaann Mitchell's death after her body was found in the trunk of her own car on May 11.
Records show Maldonado later violated a protection order and was sentenced to two days in jail for the assault class c charge. Before police released her identity, Angela Leaann Mitchell's friends and family told Eyewitness News that they reported the mother of four children missing on May 6 after she didn't return home to Dickinson the night before.
"I met police officers at her vehicle here in Texas City after filing a missing person report and I begged them," Georgia Mitchell said."I begged them to please search my daughter's car. 'Please search my daughter's car. Please investigate this'. I begged. I begged the police officers and they just dismissed me."
A police document said Angela Leaann Mitchell's phone was last pinged to a home in the Lago Mar subdivision just before 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, and had not been active since.
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