A former Stockton Kings basketball player has been arrested along with his girlfriend on suspicion of killing a woman in the Las Vegas area earlier this month, according to police.

Chance Comanche, 27, and Sakari Hamden, 19, are accused of killing Marayna Rodgers, who was reported missing on the afternoon of Dec. 7 to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Investigators learned that Rodgers was out with friends on Dec. 5 and had a prearranged meeting with Hamden and Comanche, but was not seen or heard from for days afterward, according to Las Vegas police.

Hamden was arrested in Las Vegas on Wednesday and Comanche was arrested Friday in Sacramento by the FBI.

The Stockton Kings, the NBA G League affiliate of the Sacramento Kings, announced Friday that they had released Comanche from the team and did not provide further details.

Las Vegas police said information obtained after the arrest of Comanche and Hamden led detectives to a desert area in Henderson, Nevada, where they found human remains that were later identified as that of Rodgers.

Comanche, who attended University of Arizona, played one game in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers last season.

Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.