NOTE: The crimes in Arizona were also serious. … Nine days after Ms. Oleas-Arancibia’s body was discovered, Mr. Almansoori committed a carjacking in Phoenix, stabbing the woman who was driving, the police said. Then, on Feb. 18, Mr. Almansoori walked into a McDonald’s in Surprise, Ariz., dragged a woman into a bathroom and stabbed her several times, New York police officials said. Mr. Almansoori was arrested in Scottsdale, Ariz., while driving a stolen car.
The Maricopa County attorney in Arizona said she would fight to keep a man who authorities believe bludgeoned a woman to death in a New York City hotel.
The New York Times
February 21, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/nyregion/soho-hotel-murder-bragg-arizona.html
On Feb. 8, a woman was found dead in a Manhattan hotel room, bludgeoned to death with an iron.
This week, the police announced that a 26-year-old man suspected of committing the crime had been arrested in Arizona, where he was accused of stabbing another woman a few days after the homicide in New York. A Manhattan prosecutor flew to Arizona to discuss bringing the man back to face charges.
In most homicide cases across the country, it would be a routine extradition. But on Wednesday, an Arizona prosecutor refused, saying she did not believe Alvin L. Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, could be trusted to keep him behind bars.
Rachel Mitchell, the Maricopa County attorney, said at a news conference on Wednesday that her team would not work with Mr. Bragg, whose office is seeking to charge the man, Raad Almansoori, in the killing of 38-year-old Denisse Oleas-Arancibia.
“Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the Manhattan D.A. there, Alvin Bragg,” Ms. Mitchell told reporters, “I think it’s safer to keep him here and keep him in custody, so that he cannot be out doing this to individuals either in our state, county, or anywhere in the United States.”
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The crimes in Arizona were also serious.
After workers discovered the body of Ms. Oleas-Arancibia in a room at the SoHo 54 Hotel on Feb. 8, Mr. Almansoori flew to Arizona, New York police officials said on Wednesday.
Nine days after Ms. Oleas-Arancibia’s body was discovered, Mr. Almansoori committed a carjacking in Phoenix, stabbing the woman who was driving, the police said. Then, on Feb. 18, Mr. Almansoori walked into a McDonald’s in Surprise, Ariz., dragged a woman into a bathroom and stabbed her several times, New York police officials said. Mr. Almansoori was arrested in Scottsdale, Ariz., while driving a stolen car.
He has been in custody in Maricopa County since.
In an email after the Wednesday news conference, a spokeswoman for Ms. Mitchell said Mr. Almansoori was not being extradited because the charges there were grave and state law required them to be adjudicated before extradition.
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