MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. – Joe Gentz, the man who told police he was there the night Jane Bashara was killed, has been arrested in connection with her killing.
Gentz was arrested Friday while appearing in a Macomb County Circuit courtroom for a custody case hearing for his 10-year-old daughter.
Police arrested Gentz on probable cause without a warrant.
WATCH: Uncut video of the arrest of Joe Gentz
This is not the first time Gentz has been in police custody in this case. He was kept in custody by Grosse Pointe Park police for three days after he entered the police department to allegedly confess to his involvement in Bashara's murder.
Sources have told the Local 4 Defenders that, according to Gentz, he put Jane Bashara's body into her Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicle with the help of the other man. Gentz then drove the SUV to Detroit. The other man did not make the trip to the area of Seven Mile Road and Hoover Street, where Bashara was found dead on Jan. 25.
The Defenders have learned that Gentz admitted to throwing the SUV keys down on the driver's side floorboard then leaving the vehicle in an alley near Annott and Pinewood. Gentz was chosen as the driver because he grew up in the neighborhood.
He then walked from the SUV south to a McDonald's on 7 Mile Road near Gratiot Avenue where he grabbed some food while waiting for the bus.
The Defenders have confirmed that police pulled video from that McDonald's surveillance and Gentz was seen on the video from that day, further solidifying his story.
Gentz took the bus to the Rosa Parks terminal in downtown Detroit where transferred to the Jefferson bus back to Grosse Pointe Park.
A short time later, the Defenders have learned that Gentz stepped off the bus near the police station and walked to Art's Party Store on Kerchavel. Sources tell the Defenders that detectives have gone to the party store for surveillance video. After buying a pack of cigarettes, Gentz walked home.
One week later, he turned himself into Grosse Pointe Park police.
"I want them to know the truth," he said in an interview with the Defenders.
Bashara's husband, Bob, reported her missing Jan. 24. He has been called a person of interest by police but is not charged.
In an interview with the Local 4 Defenders, Bob Bashara maintained his innocence and said he had nothing to do with his wife's death.
"I talked with moments ago and he feels a profound sense of relief. Not so much for himself, but especially for his children, knowing Joe Gentz is off the street," said David Griem, Bob Bashara's attorney.