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Man arrested after woman's body found in an east Bakersfield motel room

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A man was arrested after a woman's body was found in an east Bakersfield hotel room Saturday morning. 

Eldrick Richmond is being held on a first-degree murder charge and is accused of killing a woman and leaving her body at the Town and Country Motel on Grove Street near Union Avenue around 11 a.m. Saturday.

Police found her body after they were called about a disturbance.

The woman's name has not yet been released.

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