From Kim Minugh:
A 43-year-old man is in custody in the 2007 killing of Sofia Marta Marquez, whose body was found dumped on a highway onramp in south Sacramento, according to authorities.
Bryan Cordel Johnson, of Sacramento, was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on Wednesday night on one count of murder, according to booking records. He is accused in the death of Marquez, 26, also of Sacramento, whose body was discovered Nov. 26, 2007 in the bushes along the southbound Highway 99 onramp from Martin Luther King Boulevard, said Sacramento County Sheriff's Sgt. Tim Curran.
She had been strangled, according to Sacramento County Coroner's records. Officials determined she had been killed the day her body was found.
Evidence collected at the scene was submitted for DNA testing, and last month, the evidence was matched to Johnson, Curran said. Detectives obtained a warrant for his arrest this week.
Johnson is scheduled to be arraigned Friday.
The year before Marquez's death, Johnson pleaded no contest to one felony count of domestic violence and a misdemeanor count of resisting arrest, according to Sacramento Superior Court records. He was sentenced to 94 days of jail time and four years of formal, searchable probation, records show.
Johnson was first convicted of domestic violence in 1995, when he pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count, according to records. He was given 90 days of Sheriff's Work Project and three years of formal, non-searchable probation.
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