Nation IN BRIEF : OREGON : Suspect Arrested in Lesbian Slayings

A SWAT team converged on a motel in Stockton, Calif., and arrested a 27-year-old man in the slaying of two lesbian activists who were found bound, gagged and shot in the back of their pickup last week in Medford, Ore. Robert James Acremant was jailed pending extradition on charges of murdering Roxanne Ellis and Michelle Abdill. A phone tip led police to a Motel 6, where Acremant had registered under his own name and had parked a moving van, said Stockton Police Sgt. Billy Wykert. Acremant surrendered without incident. John Bondurant, chief deputy district attorney in Jackson County, Ore., said authorities weren’t ruling out any possible motive for the slayings. But “nothing in the evidence we have indicates Mr. Acremant knew either of these women were lesbians,” he said.