A large career criminal suspected in the brutal murder of a Queens mother in a SoHo hotel room was indicted in Arizona on charges of attempted murder, assault and sexual assault in a Phoenix courtroom Wednesday. I’m planning to come back.
Raad al-Mansouri, 26, remains in an Arizona prison on charges of two assaults on women, but prosecutors there continue to refuse to extradite him to the Big Apple to face murder charges. There is.
Al-Mansoori is accused of carjacking and stabbing a woman in Arizona on February 17, and kidnapping and stabbing a McDonald’s employee the next day, authorities said.
On Tuesday, a Maricopa County grand jury indicted him on two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of attempted sexual assault, and one count each of attempted robbery and theft of a conveyance or carjacking. Prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Police said Almansouri was at the center of a violent crime spree that began on February 7 when he allegedly beat and strangled Queens mother Denise Oleas-Aranchibia inside the SoHo 54 Hotel.
Oleas Aranchibia, who was working as a bodyguard, was killed in a vicious attack, and her alleged killer later told police, “I don’t want her to die,” Surprise, Arizona, police officer Jeremy Goebel testified in court this week. did.
Authorities said al-Mansouri hopped on a plane to Arizona after killing Oleas Aranchibia.
On February 17, he carjacked and stabbed a woman in Phoenix, and the next day, he chased a surprise 18-year-old McDonald’s employee, sneaked into her seat in a restaurant bathroom, pepper-sprayed her, and stabbed her in the neck. . , according to police.
Police cornered him in a Scottsdale shopping mall parking lot on February 18 and took him into custody, with the arrest captured on dramatic body camera footage.
Goebel testified in court that after his arrest, al-Mansouri confessed to both the Arizona and Manhattan murders and said he intended to continue his assault by killing the Uber driver and then his own parents. He said that.
“He stated that he had been trying to find love all his life and had never been able to find it,” Goebel testified. “He said many times during his interview with me that no one loves him. His mother doesn’t love him. His family doesn’t love him. It means that every attempt I made with the opposite sex was unsuccessful.”
The case began last week when Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell announced she would not extradite Al-Mansouri to New York to face murder charges, trusting Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg to keep him locked up. The incident took an unexpected turn when he told reporters that he had not done so.
“We’re going to keep him here,” Mitchell said last Wednesday. “Alvin Bragg, I’ve watched the Manhattan DA’s treatment of violent criminals in the New York area, and I think it’s safer to keep him here.”
Mr. Bragg hit back, accusing Mr. Missell of being “big-headed” and “playing politics” in the murder case, and said interstate extradition is a common process usually arranged by prosecutors over the phone. Ta.
“The Mitchell County Attorney, I don’t know how to put it, has been on the wrong track at every turn,” he told reporters. “I don’t know how they do it in Arizona, but I do know that in this county, New York county, they routinely seek and are granted remand. So in a murder case, the person is in custody. That is the truth.”
The legal dispute remains unresolved this week, as al-Mansouri was denied bail in Arizona on Monday and is scheduled to appear in court again after being charged.
