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Agder police made a new arrest Tuesday morning in connection with the death of Ørjan-Helmer Gundersen Solum, police said in a press release.
The person who has been arrested today has previously been questioned as a witness in the case. The person in question, a man in his 40s, has been known to the police from the past.
– The background to the arrest is that we have come so far in the investigation that we believe there are good reasons to suspect the person in question. He is charged with murder or complicity in Solum’s murder, police attorney Vanja Bruvoll told Dagbladet.
It was on May 19 of this year that Solum was found dead in the Steinsås mines in Arendal. The mines are located very close to where he was last seen alive on March 25.
Not questioned
The arrest is the second in the case. On Tuesday, December 8, a man in his 30s was arrested and charged with murder or complicity in Solum’s murder.
– Is there a relationship between the deceased and the accused?
– For the sake of the ongoing investigation, I cannot comment on the man’s relationship with Solum or with the other defendant, says the police attorney.
The man has not yet been questioned and it is unclear how he will respond to the accusation.
Man arrested and charged with murder
Various charges
On December 8, a man in his 30s was arrested, charged with murder or complicity in the murder, and placed in preventive detention.
– He’s shocked by the arrest, his attorney Anne Marstrander-Berg told Dagbladet after the arrest last week.
Bruvoll emphasizes that suspicion against the man in his 30s has not weakened as a result of the new arrest in the case.
Marstrander-Berg is not informed of the evolution of the case.
– I have not been informed of a new arrest or development of the case. My client is isolated with a letter and visit ban until next Thursday. The state is the same about what I can answer on behalf of the client: that at the prison meeting last Thursday he denied criminal guilt and opposed the incarceration, he tells Dagbladet.
