July 6th, 2010
Man who kept body on ice in California is deported
Dry ice
Federal officials have deported a New Zealand drug dealer who kept his dead girlfriend’s body on dry ice in a swanky Newport Beach hotel after she died of an overdose.
The 49-year-old Stephen David Royds was paroled in May after serving about 1 1/2 years of a four-year prison sentence on felony drug charges.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement says Royds was deported June 25.
He was arrested in 2008 for allegedly selling cocaine and pleaded guilty to drug charges. Investigators who searched his room at the Fairmont Hotel found the body of 33-year-old Monique Trepp in a plastic box filled with dry ice. Acquaintances said she died of an accidental drug overdose nearly a year earlier.
