Following alerts put out nationwide last week by Michigan State Police, a person of interest has been arrested in Montana.
42-year-old Utah man Chadwick Shane Mobley, who was identified as a person of interest in a homicide investigation, was found yesterday, Wednesday, June 28, in Libby, a town in Montana’s Lincoln County. He had been last seen on June 7 in Corrine, Utah, almost 10 hours away from where he was eventually found.
Michigan State Police reached out to the Utah State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) around June 13, asking them to assist in a homicide investigation for an incident that occurred in 2011 in Michigan. State Police revealed to MLive that Mobley’s DNA was matched to him via familial genealogy from the DNA found on cigarette evidence from the scene of the November 2011 death of 20-year-old Andrea Eilber.
According to Lapeer County District Court records, police pursued a warrant on Thursday, June 8, a day after Mobley was last seen in Corrine, Utah. Mobley is charged with one count of first degree felony murder, one count of first degree premeditated murder, and one felony gun charge.
20-year-old Eilber was found dead in the basement of her aunt and uncle’s Mayfield Township home on November 16, 2011, having been shot dead by a single gunshot to the head two days prior. Her boyfriend at the time, 19-year-old Kenneth Grondin III, was charged and convicted of the crime. The 2015 conviction was later overturned in 2018.
The now 30-year-old Grondin was still waiting to be retried on the charges, with it not being clear what will happen if Mobley is tried for the crime instead.
Mobley is currently being held at the Lincoln County Detention Center, awaiting his first court appearance and his extradition back to Michigan.
