No bail for ex-G League player held in woman’s killing

The Associated Press

10 months ago

Chance Comanche (Metropolitan Police Department)

Sacramento Kings center Chance Comanche poses during the NBA basketball team’s media day in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Authorities have arrested a player on the Sacramento Kings’ G League affiliate and his girlfriend in the killing of a woman whose remains were found outside of Las Vegas earlier this month. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police announced Sunday, Dec. 17, that Chance Comanche, a 27-year-old power forward and center on the Stockton Kings, and 19-year-old Sakari Harnden will be charged with murder and kidnapping in the killing of 23-year-old Marayna Rodgers. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, File)

Sakari Harnden, who faces murder charges in connection with the disappearance of a woman whose remains were found in Henderson, appears in court for a status check at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. Harnden, alongside former professional basketball player Chance Comanche, are accused of luring Marayna Rodgers away from her friends to kill her. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae

A former NBA developmental league player accused with his ex-girlfriend of killing a woman whose body was found last month in southern Nevada faced a Las Vegas judge on Tuesday following his transfer in custody from a jail in Sacramento, California.

Chance Comanche, 27, who played for the Stockton Kings before his Dec. 15 arrest in Sacramento, arrived Sunday at the Clark County Detention Center for an initial appearance on Tuesday morning, jail and court records showed.

Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Diana Sullivan ruled that Comanche will continue to be held without bail and scheduled a preliminary hearing for Feb. 2.

Comanche’s’ former girlfriend, Sakari Harnden, 19, also is jailed in Las Vegas pending a separate preliminary hearing Wednesday on charges related to the disappearance and death of Marayna Rodgers, 23, of Lynnwood, Washington.

Police in Las Vegas said Rodgers, a medical assistant, was choked to death early Dec. 6. Her remains were later found in a roadside ditch in suburban Henderson.

Comanche, a 6-foot-10 power forward and center, was dropped following his arrest by Stockton, the NBA G League affiliate of the Sacramento Kings. The team had played the G League Henderson Ignite on Dec. 5.