Woman arrested in Calif. nursing student's disappearance

The Hayward Police Department announced Wednesday that they have made an arrest in the case of Michelle Le, a nursing student who vanished over three months ago, according to NBC station KNTV.

The arrest happened in Union City, but Hayward police did not list a suspect name.

NBC Bay Area has learned that a person of interest in the case, Giselle Esteban, was arrested in Union City at 9:50 a.m. Wednesday morning. The charge was listed as 187, which is the code for murder, according to the inmate locator tracker for Alameda County.

Esteban is being held on a no bail warrant. She has a court arraignment scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

Esteban was a friend of Le's during high school in San Diego.

Esteban in June told a San Francisco television station that she "openly hates Michelle" for stealing her boyfriend in high school, but that she did not kill Le.

An ex-boyfriend had recently accused Esteban of harassing him, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The man filed a restraining order in Alameda County Superior Court on May 24 — three days before Le disappeared — accusing Esteban, the mother of their daughter, of stalking him and engaging in other erratic behavior.

News helicopters over Esteban's apartment complex showed a swarm of police activity, including officers taking boxes of what appeared to be evidence from her home.

Le has been missing since May 27, after she disappeared during a break from her clinical rotation at Kaiser Permanente Hayward. Police later found locked Honda SUV parked with blood inside the next day, but no sign of Le.

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Hayward Police said they would have a press conference at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday. It was not clear what prompted the arrest Wednesday. Police said nearly a month ago that an arrest in the case was imminent.

Since the disappearance, few details have emerged as to what happened to Michelle. Le’s family has offered up a reward, and have held several search parties.

Le grew up in San Diego and graduated from Mt. Carmel High School before moving to Hayward.

Police ruled the case to be a homicide in June.

A student at Oakland's Samuel Merritt University, Le lived in San Mateo and hoped to become a nurse practitioner like her mother, who died of cancer when Le was a teenager, the Chronicle said. She was about halfway through a yearlong accelerated program.