A husband and wife were behind bars Wednesday for allegedly gunning down a medical marijuana distributor in Long Beach who was carrying $500,000 when he was murdered, police said.
Rosemary Sayegh, 32, and her husband, 29-year-old Marcel Maurice Mackabee of Granada Hills, were taken into custody in Chico late last month.
Sayegh was booked into the Central Regional Detention Facility for murder and was being held in lieu of $500,000, pending a court appearance Tuesday, according to sheriff's jail records.
Mackabee was booked into the Inmate Reception Center and was being held in lieu of $1 million bail, also pending a Tuesday court date, records indicate.
The couple is suspected in the March 24 slaying of Phillip Victor Williamson, 29, of Los Angeles.
Williamson was found in an alley behind Pine Avenue, shot several times, and he later died at a hospital.
Police believe that Williamson was a marijuana distributor who served a number of area medical marijuana collectives.
Investigators said that Williamson had several pounds of marijuana and about $500,000 in his possession when he was shot. Long Beach police sought public help for information a few times in the investigation. In July, the department released a video clip (to the right) of a person they wanted to talk more to, and the man is arrested suspect Mackabee, according to the arrests announcement.
Sayegh was booked into the Central Regional Detention Facility for murder and was being held in lieu of $500,000, pending a court appearance Tuesday, according to sheriff's jail records.
The investigation is continuing and anyone with information is asked to call detectives 562-570-7244, or send anonymous tips via www.tipsoft.com.
