Crime & Safety
Former Boyfriend of Phylicia Barnes' Sister Arrested in Homicide Case
Michael Johnson was arrested Wednesday night.
Police have a man in custody in connection with the murder of Phylicia Barnes, the 16-year-old who disappeared from her sister's apartment in Baltimore in December 2010 and whose body was found last April, reported WJZ.
Michael Johnson, the ex-boyfriend of Phylicia Barnes' half-sister, was arrested at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, according to The Baltimore Sun.
Johnson was the last person to see Barnes alive and was also someone whom Barnes' parents told The Baltimore Sun they suspected in her disappearance.
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Barnes, who was an honors student residing in North Carolina, had been visiting her half-sister on Reisterstown Road in Baltimore when she went missing Dec. 28, 2010.
In the months that followed her disappearance, area agencies conducted searches, including an .
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Barnes' by people working on Harford County's Conowingo Dam on April 21, 2011. An autopsy indicated her death was a homicide.
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