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01-12-2012, 04:20 PM
For more than three years, Fernando Antonio Burgos-Rojas managed to elude police in the Dominican Republic where he was accused of killing his girlfriend. He allegedly shot his girlfriend dead in in Licey, Santiago December 2008. He fled to the United States after the incident and had been living in Lawrence, Massachussets for at least the past year.
But a team of US Marshals and Essex County Sheriff's deputies captured Burgos-Rojas, 41, yesterday outside the house in the city's Tower Hill section where law enforcement officials said he had been hiding out for at least a year.
"He was arrested without incident at 2pm outside his home at 1075 Essex St.," Paul Fleming, a spokesman for Essex County Sheriff Frank G. Cousins Jr. said last night.
"As soon as he was apprehended, the US Marshals brought Mr. Burgos-Rojas to federal court in Boston. He was arrested by a six-man team that includes two members of the Essex County Sheriff's Department," Fleming said.
The Dominican authorities obtained a provisional arrest warrant in the US and are formally requesting his extradition back to their country.
Burgos-Rojas appeared before a Magistrate Judge in Federal Court in Boston and was later taken to an undisclosed detention facility where he will be held pending further extradition proceedings.
www.eagletribune.com/local/x608926947/US-Marshals-nab-Dominican-murder-suspect-in-city (http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x608926947/US-Marshals-nab-Dominican-murder-suspect-in-city)
http://articles.boston.com/2012-01-11/metro/30612593_1_dominican-republic-extradition-proceedings-federal-court
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But a team of US Marshals and Essex County Sheriff's deputies captured Burgos-Rojas, 41, yesterday outside the house in the city's Tower Hill section where law enforcement officials said he had been hiding out for at least a year.
"He was arrested without incident at 2pm outside his home at 1075 Essex St.," Paul Fleming, a spokesman for Essex County Sheriff Frank G. Cousins Jr. said last night.
"As soon as he was apprehended, the US Marshals brought Mr. Burgos-Rojas to federal court in Boston. He was arrested by a six-man team that includes two members of the Essex County Sheriff's Department," Fleming said.
The Dominican authorities obtained a provisional arrest warrant in the US and are formally requesting his extradition back to their country.
Burgos-Rojas appeared before a Magistrate Judge in Federal Court in Boston and was later taken to an undisclosed detention facility where he will be held pending further extradition proceedings.
www.eagletribune.com/local/x608926947/US-Marshals-nab-Dominican-murder-suspect-in-city (http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x608926947/US-Marshals-nab-Dominican-murder-suspect-in-city)
http://articles.boston.com/2012-01-11/metro/30612593_1_dominican-republic-extradition-proceedings-federal-court
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)