A Burtonsville man is in a North Carolina jail awaiting extradition to Montgomery County for allegedly stabbing his mother to death.

Officers conducted a welfare check around 6 p.m. on Saturday for Burtonsville resident Glenda Patricia Salamanca Reyes because she did not report to work, Montgomery County Police said on Monday.

Once inside the apartment, officers found 50-year-old Salamanca Reyes dead in a hallway with apparent trauma to her body. Homicide detectives determined she lived with her 28-year-old son, Ricardo Adelso Colato Salamanca.

When officers arrived at the apartment building, they saw Salamanca Reyes’ vehicle, a 2019 Jeep Compass, leaving the parking lot.

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Law enforcement tracked the Jeep traveling south on Interstate 95, police said.

An autopsy conducted Sunday on Salamanca Reyes by the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that she died from multiple stab wounds in a homicide. That same day, police obtained an arrest warrant charging her son with first-degree murder and vehicle theft.

On Monday, members of the U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force found Colato Salamanca at a truck stop in Salisbury, North Carolina.

He was arrested without incident. It was unclear on Monday afternoon if Colato Salamanca had retained an attorney.