Body Found Near Vacaville
Police here Tuesday confirmed that the body found outside a park near Vacaville on Friday was that of missing federal investigator Sandra Coke.
In a brief news conference, police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said the Alameda County coroner had positively identified the body. She said parolee Randy Alana remained a "person of interest" in the case but was not a suspect.
"We are extremely limited in the information we can share about this investigation," Watson said.
Coke, a capital case investigator for the federal public defender's office in Sacramento, disappeared Aug. 4 after leaving her home to pick up a prescription for her daughter.
Coke's car — a convertible Mini Cooper — was found a few days later about two miles away. Her family and friends had gathered together in the Bay Area after Coke went missing and announced a $100,000 reward for anyone with information that would lead police to the 50-year-old, whom they described as a wonderful friend, mother and sister "dedicated to caring for others in her professional and personal life."
On Thursday, police said that Alana, 56, had last been seen with Coke and was a person of interest in the case.
He is listed in California's Megan's Law database as a "high-risk" sex offender with convictions for rape, rape in concert with force or violence, kidnapping with intent to commit a sex offense and oral copulation. That database noted that Alana had been in violation of registration requirements since June 11.
He was assigned a GPS monitoring device after his last release from custody on a second-degree burglary conviction, and a second database indicates that a warrant was issued for his arrest Aug. 6 for failure "to participate" in the monitoring program.
An alarm sounds when a GPS device is tampered with. It remained unclear Tuesday when Alana had tampered with his device and what parole officers knew about his whereabouts. Source and More Details

In a brief news conference, police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said the Alameda County coroner had positively identified the body. She said parolee Randy Alana remained a "person of interest" in the case but was not a suspect.
"We are extremely limited in the information we can share about this investigation," Watson said.
Coke, a capital case investigator for the federal public defender's office in Sacramento, disappeared Aug. 4 after leaving her home to pick up a prescription for her daughter.
Coke's car — a convertible Mini Cooper — was found a few days later about two miles away. Her family and friends had gathered together in the Bay Area after Coke went missing and announced a $100,000 reward for anyone with information that would lead police to the 50-year-old, whom they described as a wonderful friend, mother and sister "dedicated to caring for others in her professional and personal life."
On Thursday, police said that Alana, 56, had last been seen with Coke and was a person of interest in the case.
He is listed in California's Megan's Law database as a "high-risk" sex offender with convictions for rape, rape in concert with force or violence, kidnapping with intent to commit a sex offense and oral copulation. That database noted that Alana had been in violation of registration requirements since June 11.
He was assigned a GPS monitoring device after his last release from custody on a second-degree burglary conviction, and a second database indicates that a warrant was issued for his arrest Aug. 6 for failure "to participate" in the monitoring program.
An alarm sounds when a GPS device is tampered with. It remained unclear Tuesday when Alana had tampered with his device and what parole officers knew about his whereabouts. Source and More Details
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