Missing Corrales woman's car located

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Two months after Sandra Sanchez vanished Los Lunas police Tuesday recovered her car from an Albuquerque hotel parking lot.

"I'm confident that this piece of evidence will lead us to more clues and perhaps the discovery of Sandra." Los Lunas Police Chief Roy Melnick told KRQE News 13. However Melnick added there was no indication from outside the car that there might be a body in the trunk.

Sanchez, who lived in Corrales in Sandoval County, was last sighted on the night of April 3 when security cameras recorded her entering, exiting and driving away from a Walgreens store in Los Lunas in Valencia County.

Police now know someone parked Sanchez's car at a northeast Albuquerque hotel soon after she disappeared. The car was recovered from the parking lot of the MCM Elegante at Menaul Boulevard and University Avenue NE

"What we have is video of this vehicle being here," Melnick said. "We know what time it was dropped off.

"We have ways of tracing how this vehicle arrived here."

This isn't the only vehicle in the department's possession related to the investigation. On Monday police seized a pickup truck belonging Sanchez's ex-boyfriend who appears to be the focus of the investigation.

Investigators previously had searched his home and seized items of clothing.

"We also have a person of greater interest possibly shifting to more of a suspect at this point," Melnick said. "His truck was seized yesterday, so tomorrow we are going to process his vehicle and this vehicle."

Anyone with information that might be helpful to the investigation can call Los Lunas police at 839-3855.