US Marshals arrest a Dominican man sought in last year's killing of 4 people in New York

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The U.S. Marshals Service says agents person arrested a antheral successful the Dominican Republic sought successful the sidesplitting of 4 radical successful New York past year, including 2 children

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. Marshals Service announced precocious Wednesday that agents arrested a antheral successful the Dominican Republic sought successful the sidesplitting of 4 radical successful New York past year, including 2 children.

Luis Francisco Soriano, besides known arsenic Jefry Yevo, had been moving astatine a edifice successful the fashionable tourer coastal municipality of Punta Cana, the bureau said successful a statement.

Soriano had primitively fled to Puerto Rico aft the killings but past jumped connected a vessel to his autochthonal Dominican Republic aft becoming alert that national marshals were successful the U.S. territory, authorities said.

U.S. Marshals said it worked with Dominican authorities to apprehension 31-year-old Soriano “without incidental aft helium completed his displacement astatine the hotel’s telephone center.”

It wasn't instantly wide if Soriano had an attorney. His brother, Julio Pimentel Soriano, was arrested soon aft the August 2024 killings and has pleaded not guilty. Police person said the brothers are related to 1 of the victims.

“Every lawsuit is important to us, but this 1 not lone profoundly impacted our communities successful New York and Puerto Rico, it shook our full nation,” said Wilmer Ocasio-Ibarra, U.S. marshal for the territory of Puerto Rico.

The Sorianos were accused successful the killings of Fraime Ubaldo, 30; Marangely Moreno Santiago, 26; Evangeline Ubaldo Moreno, 4; and Sebastián Ubaldo Moreno, 2. Police said Ubaldo was a relative of the Sorianos.

The victims' bodies were recovered successful the basement of their location that was acceptable connected occurrence successful Irondequoit, a suburb of Rochester, New York, authorities said.

Moreno Santiago and her 2 children were buried successful the confederate Puerto Rican coastal municipality of Salinas, her hometown.