Newly released police body camera footage captures the dramatic moment Arizona officers arrested a career criminal wanted in the gruesome murder of a Queens mother at a SoHo hotel. ing.
Raad Almansouri, 26, was cornered in a parking lot by Scottsdale police on Feb. 18, still driving a stolen sedan that had been carjacked the day before, when they slapped him in the cuff. Video posted on Facebook by Arizona authorities is shown.
Al-Mansouri was in the midst of an out-of-control crime spree when police nabbed him in the Grand Canyon State, days after the NYPD said he beat and strangled 38-year-old escort Dennis Oleas-Arancibia inside a Soho room. It is said that there was 54 hotels on February 7th.
His arrest has since sparked a legal firestorm between Arizona state prosecutors and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, with Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell saying that Bragg is putting career criminal Al-Mansouri behind bars. They are refusing to extradite Mr. Al-Mansoori to the Big Apple, fearing that they will not.
A war of words erupted between the two prosecutors last week, with Mr. Mitchell harping on Mr. Bragg’s moderate reputation for crime and the Manhattan DA’s office accusing Mr. Bragg of playing politics and “hype.” denounced.
Al-Mansoori’s string of alleged crimes began after he flew into New York from Florida in late January, booked a date with Oleas Aranchibia on February 7, got into an argument over paid time, and killed her. announced the police. officials said.
Surveillance cameras captured the murder suspect emerging from a hotel wearing the victim’s light-colored tights after the brutal and fatal assault reportedly left his pants soaked with blood.
Police say he hopped on a plane to Arizona on February 12, before he was identified as a person of interest in the case, and began a criminal binge within a week.
A man is suspected of carjacking a woman in Phoenix on February 17 and stabbing her before fleeing in her car, police said.
The next day, he was charged with threatening a female McDonald’s employee in Surprise, Arizona, cornering her in a bathroom stall, pointing a gun at her and stabbing her as she screamed.
Al-Mansouri is currently being held without bail in the Maricopa County Jail on charges stemming from both incidents. Mitchell remains adamant that she will prosecute al-Mansouri on these charges before considering sending him back to New York to face the murder charges at the SoHo hotel. Killing.
Police say the suspect lives in Arizona, Florida and Texas, and has a string of arrests and crimes in all three locations, including a bust in Florida where he was released on bail for assaulting a woman.
Police said Al-Mansoori confessed to the Manhattan murder and two violent incidents in Arizona when he was taken into custody in Scottsdale.
He has been identified as a key suspect in the New York murders, but has not been formally charged as he remains confined in Arizona, authorities said.
