By GLEN FAISON, THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER

Porterville police late Monday arrested three homeless people in connection with the city’s record-tying sixth suspected homicide of the year.

Miguel Cervantes Calderon, 26, Crystal Barragan, 23, and Esperanza Hernandez, 28, were booked into the Tulare County Jail in connection with the death Sunday of Joseph Roderick “Rod” Fox, 36, of Porterville.

The arrests were announced after press time on Monday. Police described the three suspects as transients living along the Tule River.

Fox was found dead Sunday in an open field in the 400 block of South E Street.

For more on today’s developments, see Wednesday’s print edition of The Recorder.

Contact Glen Faison at 784-5000, Ext. 1040, or gfaison@portervillerecorder.com.

This story was published in The Porterville Recorder on August 15, 2006