ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Andrew Isaac Griffin, the former Salsa Joe’s business partner who was recently arrested for the 2021 double homicide of Thomas and Angela Strussion, is set to have an extradition hearing on Friday.

Griffin, 32, of Oklahoma was arrested in Hawaii on Tuesday by the Hawaii Police Department in cooperation with Belmont County Sheriff’s Office Chief Detective Ryan Allar and Detective Sgt. Jordan Bluling on an extradition warrant. According to reports published in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Griffin’s extradition hearing will be at Hilo Circuit Court at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 28 before Hilo Circuit Judge Henry Nakamoto.

During his initial court appearance on Thursday, Nakamoto set the extradition hearing after Griffin’s deputy public defender Megan Fellows requested a $500,000 bail, which Nakamoto denied.

The Strussions and their pets were found dead inside their home on Trails End Drive, off National Road outside Belmont, after a structure fire was reported there early on Sept. 21, 2021. Days later, former Belmont County Sheriff David Lucas announced that their deaths were the result of a double homicide.

Thomas Strussion and Griffin were business partners at the Elm Grove location of Salsa Joe’s restaurant, which opened in May 2021.

In July 2023, Griffin was declared a missing person by the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office in Oklahoma in July 2023. Law enforcement in Harris County, Texas, informed the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office in October 2023 that Griffin had been located, was safe, and had been taken into custody on outstanding warrants out of LeFlore and Oklahoma County.

According to KOTV News 6 in Tusla, Oklahoma, Griffin was arrested in a Houston, Texas, airport while deboarding a plane from Honduras in 2023. At that time he was charged with kidnapping and domestic violence.

It is not confirmed how long Griffin has been in Hawaii, but Hawaii Police Department Capt. Rio Amon-Wilkins of the East Hawaii Criminal Investigation Division believes he has been staying with a family member there, according to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.