Arrest In Time Warner Slaying

Acting on a phone tip, police on Saturday arrested a 19-year-old man in the torture slaying of his former teacher, Jonathan Levin, the son of Time Warner’s top executive.

Corey Arthur was arrested in a housing project in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said at a news conference. Arthur, a convicted drug peddler, was charged with first-degree murder and robbery.

An alleged accomplice, Montoun Hart, 25, was also arrested and charged with second-degree murder and robbery, Safir said. Hart has a record of seven arrests, two for robbery in New York City.

The motive for the killing was robbery, Safir said. Investigators believe Levin was tortured and forced to reveal the password to his bank card, then killed after his assailants withdrew $800 from a bank machine.