A 35-year-old man is in police custody, charged with murder in the death of Jerry Shawn Collins.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office detectives arrested Samuel "Sammy" Loudenslager Saturday after numerous witnesses identified, located and provided sworn statements to investigators.
"There was some people that had direct information about what happened and the detectives started to follow a witness trail," said Lt. Robert Forrest, spokesperson for the Lee County Sheriff's Office. "It took less than three days to catch him. It was intense."
At 8 p.m., deputies received information about Loudenslager's location and he was arrested without incident.
Loudenslager faces a second-degree murder charge for the death of Collins, 44, whose body was found on May 9 by an acquaintance at his Crescent Lake Drive apartment in North Fort Myers.
Autopsy results revealed Collins was killed by a single stab wound from a knife to the chest.
Loudenslager has a criminal background including arrests for felonies such as cocaine possession, grand theft as well as several traffic violations, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office Web site.
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