Man charged with murder of girlfriend whose body was found in an Anaheim trash bin – Orange County Register

SANTA ANA – A La Habra man arrested at Los Angeles International Airport a day after his girlfriend’s body was found in an Anaheim trash bin was charged Friday with murder.

Amer Alhasan, 28, was being held without bail for the killing of Tiyanie Ly, 38, whose body was found stuffed in a duffel back left in a trash container on the 2100 block of Balboa Plaza.

Anaheim police say Alhasan was dating Ly, a mother of three young children, at the time of her death. Authorities have not released a motive for the slaying or specified where Ly is believed to have been killed. But they have indicated that the area she was found is “unrelated” to where she actually died.

Around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, someone looking for recyclables discovered Ly’s body. Family members, who saw media coverage of the discovery of the body, contacted police later that day and helped identify her.

Police have not commented on what led them to quickly identify Alhasan as a suspect. He was arrested after checking in for a flight to Germany. Investigators believe Alhasan was attempting to travel to Jordan, where he has family ties, police said .

Alhasan’s only previous criminal record in Orange County was a misdemeanor charge of driving on a suspended license, to which he pleaded guilty in 2017. But he was involved in a pair of restraining orders in Orange County, court records show.

In 2012, a man identifying himself as Alhasan’s father filed for a temporary restraining order against Alhasan, records show. According to the filing, the son was “constantly abusive” while they lived together, would repeatedly come to the father’s store to destroy counters and glass and harass employees, and had stolen and maxed out the father’s credit card.

A judge approved the request for a temporary restraining order by the father, which later expired.

In 2013, Alhasan filed a request for a restraining order against a woman he identified as his girlfriend. He alleged in a court filing that the woman had emotionally and physically abused him and wrongly accused him of rape, theft, kidnapping and cheating on her.

The temporary restraining order was approved, but in 2014 Alhasan asked a judge to have it dismissed. The woman named in that restraining order was not Ly.

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