A Port Angeles man accused in a 2008 North Carolina double homicide has been extradited, and the local case that held him here is closed.
Johnny S. Talbert, 43, was transported to North Carolina under a Governor's Warrant, according to court records filed Friday in Clallam County Superior Court.
Judge Simon Barnhart signed an order on July 17 dismissing the Washington fugitive matter with prejudice and exonerating any bail posted. The hearing came on for a scheduled extradition review. Talbert did not appear and the criminal minutes note that he had already been transported.
In a sworn certification, the state indicated Talbert was extradited pursuant to a Governor's Warrant, the process used when a suspect does not voluntarily waive extradition.
The dismissal applies only to the Washington fugitive proceeding. The charges Talbert faces in North Carolina remain pending.
Talbert was arrested without incident on May 21 in the 2300 block of West 18th Street by Port Angeles Police, with location assistance from OPNET detectives.
He had been held without bail in the Clallam County Correction Facility. His transfer came within about two months of arrest, inside the 30-to-90-day window Nichols previously described for the Governor's Warrant process.
Authorities in Concord, North Carolina, allege Talbert is responsible for the July 2008 "Sun Drop Murders," in which an office manager, Donna Barnhardt, and a church choir leader, Darrell Noles, were fatally shot during an armed robbery at a local Sun Drop bottling plant. Nearly $10,000 was stolen.
Talbert faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count of robbery with a firearm or other dangerous weapon, and is expected to stand trial in Cabarrus County.
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