Ex-D.C. Mom’s Ex Goes to Extradition Hearing in Pennsylvania

Russell Ashford, ex-partner of missing Northwest D.C. mother Antoinette Forbes, appeared in Beaver County, PA for an extradition hearing on a Montgomery County probation-violation warrant; Forbes has been missing for more than a week and investigators, led by the MPD’s homicide unit, are treating her disappearance as suspicious with potential evidence she is dead. Ashford was arrested in Pennsylvania on the warrant and is being held in Beaver County Jail pending extradition to Maryland, while Pennsylvania authorities say they have not filed charges related to Forbes’ disappearance. The case has a lengthy custody dispute history between Forbes and Ashford, and authorities are seeking any information from the public.