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SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1997 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS PAGE 5 Fo) fo DD'iraiK-Dira sDaofifi Li Dim-'Sinra cas' I ii Htm 1h Busted con was driving a missing woman's car somebody stopped her car forcibly or though a ruse," a source said. The source said "there have been other leads in this case" and cautioned against jumping to conclusions. Philadelphia police said they were looking into Bomar's possible involvement in the disappearance of Maria Cabuenos, 25, of the 4300 block of Malta Street on March 15. Cabuenos, a native of the Philippines, left for her job at SmithKline Beecham in Nor-ristown, at 5 a.m. that day but never got there, according to Marian Ocampo, her sister.

She was driving her black 1993 Honda Accord, Ocampo told police. Bomar was arrested at 7 a.m. Thursday at the front door of a house on Walnut Street in Ardmore as he was attempting to burglarize the place, police said. Cabuenos' Honda Accord was parked practically in front of the house, they said. Lower Merion Police Officer Jeffrey Romanoff responded to a 911 call and saw a man running toward the back of the house, while yelling that everything was all right.

Romanoff arrested the man, who turned out to be Bomar, and the complainant identified Bomar as the man who had tried to enter the residence through a bathroom window, police said. The Accord was identified as belonging to Cabuenos through its vehicle identification number. The license tag on the car actually was for a 1993 Ford Escort registered to Bomar, according to police. Police found "several pairs of women's panties" in the glove compartment, a woman's black leather jacket and a -9mm Sig Sauer semi-automatic in the car. A small amount of marijuana was found in the glove compartment, police said.

Bomar is being held in Montgomery County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail on charges of burglary, weapons violations and criminal trespass. In an affidavit sworn to obtain a search warrant for the Honda, Sgt. Christine Coulter of the city's East Detective Division said that since she disappeared, Cabuenos' cellular phone has not been used and her bank account has not been touched. That is "grossly uncharacteristic" of Cabuenos, Coulter said, and makes it "likely that she has met with foul play." Philadelphia police said they also were attempting to determine if Bomar had any- Arthur J. Bomar, held in break-in, had spent time in jail for a killing in Nevada thing to do with the rape of a woman at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science on Jan.

29, 1996. Bomar was paroled in 1989 after serving 12 years for second-degree murder in Nevada. He received permission to move to Pennsylvania, where the state's parole board had supervision of him. Bomar was convicted of shooting to death a man who supposedly argued with him about a parking space in Las Vegas and who made advances to a woman Bomar was with. A preliminary hearing on the burglary charge has been scheduled before District Justice Caroline Culley Stein for Tuesday.

Staff writers Barbara Laker and Jim No lan contributed to this report. by Joseph R. Daughen, Marc Meltzer and Joe O'Dowd Daily News Staff Writers A paroled murderer arrested in Lower Merion for burglary has emerged as a possible suspect in the unsolved slaying of Aimee Willard, as well as the mysterious disappearance of a young woman from Juniata Park who police said probably met with foul play. A source close to the Willard investigation said that allegations made against the murderer were "not inconsistent with the theory that has been developed" about how Willard was killed. The paroled murderer was identified as Arthur J.

Bomar, 39, of Warrington, Bucks County. Although Delaware County authorities and state police would like to talk with Bomar about the Willard case, and city police would like to question him about the missing woman, the chances of that happening appear to be remote. Bomar already has received the services of a public defender. Of particular interest to the Willard investigators, one source said, is an allegation that Bomar bumped into the rear of a car driven on Delaware Avenue by a young woman earlier this week, apparently in an effort to get her to stop. The young woman told police that she was bumped several times by a man who motioned her to pull over.

The young woman fled, but not before she wrote down the license-plate number of the car that bumped her. The car, police said, was registered to Bomar. Her description of the man also fit Bomar, who stands about 5-feet-10 and weighs 245 pounds, police said. The source said it long has been believed that Willard, a 22-year-old All-America college athlete, was forced or duped into stopping her car on the Blue Route exit ramp at Route 1 in Marple Township, Delaware County, last June 20. Willard's empty car was found with the lights on and the motor running.

Her nude body was found dumped on a trash-strewn lot at 16th Street and Indiana Avenue in North Philadelphia. Philadelphia police sources said Bomar was known to frequent a bar in the area where Willard's body was found. "Given the method of the attempt to stop this young woman on Delaware Avenue, and given the locale, which is no more than 20 or 21 minutes from the (Blue Routel exit ramp, and given the background of this individual, it is not inconsistent with the theory that has been developed that 1 V' I i I W'J br c- 7 7 1 Aimee Willard (left), in family photo with grandmother and sister Nancy, was stopped while driving, then killed ix-sfudenf sought in robbery-murder of N.Y- teacher tioned and was cooperating with detectives in the manhunt, said a police source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Arthur lives in the East New York section, but was believed to be hiding out in Bedford-Stuyve-sant, said another police source. top executive.

Police commissioner Howard Safir identified the suspect as Corey Arthur or Arthur Corey, 19. "He is a suspect at this time," Safir said. "He's wanted for questioning." Authorities described Arthur as Police were investigating whether the suspect may have discarded some bloodstained clothing at a relative's home, the second source added. Police officials have refused to discuss details of the case, and See LEVIN Page 12 a eonvicted drug seller, parolee and former student of Jonathan Levin's, a teacher at a high school in the Bronx and the son of Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin. Another young man who may have been an accomplice in the fatal robbery was being ques Associated Press NEW YORK Aided by a possible accomplice, detectives cast a dragnet across Brooklyn yesterday in search of a suspect in the torture slaying of the schoolteacher son of Time Warner's f'H'p.