Rubbermaid gets good business, or Police Find Woman's Body On Ice in CA Hotel Room

[Unamused Cat]

EWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Police discovered the body of a woman packed in a large container with dry ice in a hotel room as they were serving a search warrant in a cocaine investigation, authorities said Friday.

Detectives found the fully clothed and "well preserved" body late Thursday after arresting a guest at the Fairmont Newport Beach for investigation of selling and possessing cocaine on the hotel grounds, police Sgt. Evan Sailor said.

When they searched Stephen David Royds' room, they found the body inside a Rubbermaid container filled with dry ice, he said.

"It's definitely weird," Sailor said.

An autopsy of the body was "inconclusive" because there was no sign of trauma and her death did not appear to be a homicide, said Dan Akin, an Orange County supervising deputy coroner.

Investigators were trying to identify the woman, who appeared to be in her 20s or 30s, as they awaited results from a blood toxicology test. It wasn't clear how long she had been dead, Sailor said.

Police were also investigating whether Royds was involved in the death. He was held on $30,000 bail.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336076,00.html

[Pirelli Jones]

I thought we were going to have confirmation of that kidney story, but I'm betting unreported OD. The dude will get hammered either way, hiding a corpse is still frowned upon right?

[Wends]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23549517
http://www.ocregister.com/news/trepp...-orange-county

Newport Beach, California - a police drug probe turned up a woman by the name of Monique Felicia Trepp packed in dry ice in a Rubermaid container, surrounded with porch swings, toy night-vision goggles and sake bottles. All of this was conveniently located for easy discovery in the home of Stephen David Royds.

The woman, a felon from Colorado wanted for multiple felonies by the state of Colorado including possession and intent to sell, had been bailed out of the Aspen-toting state and proceeded to book it to CA. How she made the jump from felon on the run to popsicle in Rubbermaid is unknown, but police are stating that there's little evidence of homicide - they're waiting on a toxicity report to determine cause of death.

Royds, a convicted felon with multiple drug charges in Orange County, was imprisoned for parole violations and denied bond owing to such, but has not been charged with Trepp's death. He just decided to keep her on ice for 'religious reasons.'

All I can think is - that's one helluva Rubbermaid if it can hold THAT much stuff. I need something like that for my attic.

[Unamused Cat]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A woman whose body was found packed in dry ice in a hotel room had outstanding warrants from drug charges in Colorado, records show.

Detectives found the body of Monique Felicia Trepp, 33, fully clothed inside a large Rubbermaid container late Thursday after arresting a guest at the Fairmont Newport Beach for investigation of selling and possessing cocaine, police Sgt. Evan Sailor said.

In 2005, Trepp was charged with several felonies in Colorado, including possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, court records showed.

Her attorney there Mark S. Rubinstein said a much older man posted bail for Trepp, and she then disappeared.

An autopsy of Trepp was inconclusive but her death did not appear to be a homicide. Authorities were awaiting a toxicology report to determine the cause of death.

Along with Trepp's body, police found porch swings, toy night-vision goggles and large sake bottles with lamp sockets stuffed into their spouts in the room of Stephen David Royds.

Royds, 46, was booked Saturday afternoon at Orange County Jail in Santa Ana, where he was denied bail because of a possible probation violation, authorities said.

He was scheduled to be arraigned on the drug charges Monday. He has not been charged in connection with Trepp's death.

Court records showed that in 2002 Royds pleaded guilty to four felony drug charges in Orange County.

[Jaded]

I can't wait to find out what was going on with the swings, goggles, and sake bottles. My imagination is just running wild with this one. Why would anyone wanna drag all that around with them?

And....where CAN I get a Rubbermaid container big enough for a body? I have a lot of ummmmm....Christmas decorations and stuff.

[Unamused Cat]

I can't wait to find out what was going on with the swings, goggles, and sake bottles. My imagination is just running wild with this one. Why would anyone wanna drag all that around with them?

And....where CAN I get a Rubbermaid container big enough for a body? I have a lot of ummmmm....Christmas decorations and stuff.

We probably really don't want to know. What I'm I saying... of course we want to know all the gory details. :D Now here is a thought, maybe Royds was keeping her on ice cos he is a necrophiliac.

Now they are saying that the gf might have been dead close to a year.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/royds...fairmont-hotel

[Jaded]

Now they are saying that the gf might have been dead close to a year.

Ok....that's just gross. And weird.

I'm wondering which one of the made up religious affiliations would want it's members to forever heave around a dead ex girlfriend??

[Unamused Cat]

Foul play ruled out in ice-packed body in Calif. hotel room. Police believe woman overdosed.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...e/5679147.html

[rubylou]

So he was hiding her for.... sentimental reasons?

[AnalBreeze]

Damn, I just put sandwiches and shit in my Rubbermaids! :D

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A convicted drug dealer who kept his girlfriend's body preserved on dry ice in a swank Newport Beach hotel room for a year has been deported to his native New Zealand after being released from prison, federal officials said Thursday.

Stephen David Royds, who went by the nickname "Kiwi," was arrested in March 2008 by Newport Beach police officers. Authorities had been investigating reports that he was selling cocaine at a local bar.

After his arrest, police searched his room at the Fairmont Hotel, where he'd been living for two years. Officers found the frozen body of Monique Trepp, 33. She had been stuffed into a plastic box filled with dry ice.

Royds, 49, was paroled in May after serving more than a year and a half of a four-year sentence for felony drug charges. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported him June 25, ICE officials said.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...w-zealand.html

Trepp, who was from Huntington Beach, was Royds' girlfriend. She overdosed on cocaine a year before police discovered her body.

Royds told police that he did not report the death because he had outstanding warrants and was dealing drugs. He was not charged with failing to report the death.

http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dp...,3493866.story

[akika666]

i guess they don't have very nosy housekeepers at that joint