article_snippet: (CNN)The father of a Los Angeles police officer wanted for murder has been charged with making a false statement to an FBI agent, FBI FBI said Thursday in a press release.
article_snippet: Victor Manuel Solis, 53, was arrested in Lancaster, California, in connection with the ongoing search for Henry Solis, a rookie officer with the L.A. police who is believed to have entered Mexico from El Paso, Texas, FBI FBI said.
article_snippet: An FBI complaint said a video recording at the border crossing showed father and son entering Mexico together at 5:40 a.m. March 14, even though the elder Solis told an agent the elder Solis dropped the elder Solis at an El Paso bus station and didn't know where Victor Solis went.
article_snippet: the elder Solis "knowingly and willingly lied during the interview in order to thwart law enforcement investigative efforts," An FBI complaint said.
article_snippet: the elder Solis is accused of killing Salome Rodriguez Jr. early in the morning of March 13 in Pomona, California.
article_snippet: Items left by the elder Solis at the crime scene allowed Pomona police detectives to identify the elder Solis "as the individual responsible for killing Rodriguez," according to an FBI affidavit.
article_snippet: the elder Solis told FBI on March 16 that the elder Solis called on March 13, said the elder Solis wanted to spend some vacation time in El Paso, and rode with the elder Solis father to that Texas city, An FBI complaint said.
article_snippet: the elder Solis said that after dropping off the elder Solis at the bus station, the elder Solis later crossed into Mexico alone, An FBI complaint said.
article_snippet: FBI said the elder Solis will be taken to El Paso for prosecution.
article_snippet: the elder Solis whereabouts are not known..
highlights_snippet: Victor Solis is charged with making a false statement to an FBI agent .
  
highlights_snippet: Victor Solis is an L.A. police officer who has been charged with murder .
  
highlights_snippet: FBI says the father took Victor Solis to El Paso, where Victor Solis crossed into Mexico .