Tricia Dennis and Orlando city commissioner Regina Hill, far left, pay their respects at a makeshift memorial to honor an Orlando police sergeant killed Monday at the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store and an Orange County Sheriff's Office deputy before a candlelight vigil at the store in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP) (The Associated Press)
ORLANDO, Fla. – Authorities are making good on promises to go after people they think helped a fugitive in the weeks before he was wanted in the fatal shooting of an Orlando police sergeant.
Markeith Loyd's niece, Lakensha Smith-Loyd, was arrested Wednesday on an accessory charge. Later the same day, authorities arrested an ex-girlfriend of Loyd's: Jameis Slaughter, who also faces an accessory charge.
And a day earlier, Zarghee Mayan, the fugitive's supervisor at a fried chicken restaurant, was arrested on the same charge.
A manhunt for Loyd after Monday's fatal shooting of Master Sgt. Debra Clayton entered its fourth day Thursday.
Smith-Loyd is accused of collecting money from Mayan to give to her uncle as deputies searched for him in the days after the slaying of another ex-girlfriend in mid-December.
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