SPRING LAKE, N.C. (WNCN) — A Harnett County man is in custody in Ohio after a woman was found slain in a home in Harnett County Sunday afternoon, deputies said.

The incident was reported around 12:20 p.m. at a home in the 100 block of Swain Street, which is in a neighborhood north of Spring Lake off Overhills Road, according to a news release from the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office.

Harnett County deputies were asked by Hamilton Township Police in Ohio to check the well-being of a person inside the house.

Inside the home, deputies found Blanca Lacortiglia, 37, dead, the news release said.

A murder warrant was later obtained for Jeffrey Myers Lacortiglia, 43, deputies said.

Lacortiglia is in the custody of Hamilton Township Police in Ohio.

No other information was released.