By Associated Press and msnbc.com staff
Police in Long Beach, Calif., say they have made arrests in?unsolved 2008 slayings of five transients in a homeless encampment near a freeway.
Police Chief Jim McDonnell will hold a press conference late Wednesday about the arrests in connection with the fatal shootings of Hamid Shraifat, Frederick Neumeier, Katherine Verdun, Lorenzo Perez Villicana and Vanessa Malaepule.
A police statement says no details of the arrests would be released until the press conference.
However,?Lt. Lloyd Cox of the Long Beach Police Department told The Los Angeles Times "persons are in custody for the killings" following an extensive investigation.
Authorities believed at the time that?all five victims, including Malaepule, who was an unemployed single mother of six, were friends and had been socializing with one another for some time, the Times reported.
News of the arrests?comes a day after an Iraq war veteran was charged in nearby Orange County with stabbing to death four homeless men in a weeks-long rampage.
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