Arrest warrant issued for suspect in Fairbanks homicide

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - An arrest warrant has been issued for a 29-year-old man suspected in a Fairbanks homicide.

Joseph Vance Arabie is wanted on a first-degree murder warrant in the death last week of 47-year-old Carlos Zuniga.

Fairbanks police describe Arabie as 6-foot-1-inch (185 centimeters), about 185 pounds (84 kilograms), with brown hair and brown eyes.

Photos show he has neck tattoo in a spike pattern extending down for inches around the front of his neck.

Arabie was last seen in south Fairbanks. Police say he is armed and dangerous and should not be approached.

Police just before 11:30 p.m. Thursday took a call of shots fired on a street south of Creamer’s Field Migratory Wildlife Refuge.

Responding officers found Zuniga injured and attempted first aid. He died at the scene.