Raad Almansoori, arrested for several attacks on women in Arizona and linked to the brutal homicide of Ecuadorian Denisse Oleas Arancibia (38) in a hotel in Manhattan (NYC), attempted to rape and murder sex workers in addition to killing members of his own family, authorities said.
The Maricopa County Prosecutor’s Office in Arizona – his home state – announced today that Almansoori (26) was indicted by a grand jury for multiple alleged crimes committed there, including attempted murder, aggravated assault, attempted armed robbery, attempted sexual assault and car theft, reported FoxNews.
Additionally, Almansoori has been linked to alleged crimes against women in other states in the country, including Florida, New York and Texas. Some cases happened before and others after Oleas Arancibia was found dead in Manhattan on February 8.
“He said he’s been looking for love his whole life and hasn’t been able to find it.”
The suspect had appeared yesterday afternoon in Maricopa Superior Court during an evidentiary hearing in which public defender Dakota Johnson attempted to modify the conditions of his detention. But the judge denied him bail, he reported. The Arizona Republic.
At Monday’s hearing, the prosecution and Almansoori’s lawyer questioned Detective Jeremy Goebel of the Surprise police, where the defendant allegedly injured a McDonald’s restaurant employee in the neck with several stab wounds, whom he followed into the bathroom. , days after fleeing New York, where he apparently brutally killed Oleas Arancibia.
Detective Goebel said Almansoori described to him in detail how he tried to kill Oleas Arancibia after he felt she had taken away his time for paid sex and defrauded him. According to her alleged confession, she attempted to break her neck while he strangled her, stomped on his head several times, and then put a sock over her face in an attempt to suffocate her.
According to Goebel, Almansoori described Oleas-Arancibia’s death as his “first homicide,” as he did not know if the 18- and 22-year-old girls he admitted to stabbing survived their injuries. He also said that the motivations behind his alleged crimes were due to his failed attempts to find someone who would love him.
“He said he’s been looking for love his whole life and hasn’t been able to find it,” Goebel said in court. “He had said numerous times during my interview with him that no one loves him. His mother doesn’t love him. His family doesn’t love him. That all the attempts he has made with the opposite sex have been unsuccessful.” And then he described himself as a “sex addict.”
Almansoori also told police that he planned to kill his father and stepmother before burning down their house, but that he wanted to wait until his sister was out of the area.
Goebel added that Almansoori got into an argument with a woman in Florida whom he described as his girlfriend and strangled her before stealing her car. In an interview, the woman said that they were co-workers and did not have a personal relationship.
Johnson, Almansoori’s attorney, noted that her client had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia and claimed to have heard voices in the past, although Goebel said he gave her logical answers during questioning.
Phoenix (Arizona) police officials believe that Almansoori is responsible for an attempted carjacking and stabbing of a woman who managed to survive in Glendale, last Saturday, February 17.
The next day, Sunday the 18th, he allegedly entered the bathroom of a McDonald’s restaurant in Surprise, Arizona, and stabbed an employee while trying to abuse her. The suspect fled on foot, leaving that victim injured.
Hours later Almansoori was arrested in a stolen car. Once in police custody he apparently admitted to the attack at McDonald’s, along with the knife incident in Phoenix, and even told authorities to “Google the SoHo 54 hotel,” in reference to the homicide of Oleas Arancibia.
Using credit cards, police tracked his whereabouts from New York to Arizona. Court records show he was released from a Florida jail last September and that case remains open, with a trial scheduled for March.
Oleas Arancibia did not have a known profession or trade. She lived in Queens (NYC) with her oldest son, but for about a year she had been staying several nights a month at the “SoHo 54” hotel located on Watts Street in Manhattan. There she was found dead under a blanket next to a bloody clothes iron on the morning of February 8.
He died from neck compression and blunt head trauma, according to a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner (OCME). Preliminary evidence indicated that a fight may have taken place in the room, as she had injuries to her head and entire body. The victim’s parents and her other 13-year-old son still live in Guayaquil.
The day before her death, the Ecuadorian woman arrived at the hotel wearing mesh pants that were later not found in the room with her body. Curiously, a man was caught on surveillance camera leaving the hotel wearing those same pants, considered a woman’s piece. Police suspect he changed his clothes because his were heavily stained with the blood of his potential victim. That individual appears to be Almansoori.
Rachel Mitchell, the Maricopa County prosecutor, said last week that they will not agree to extradite Almansoori to New York at this time because they do not trust Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has been criticized in several cases for allegedly promoting “impunity.” ” under the penal reform. In response, Bragg commented that the attitude of her counterpart in Arizona was “deeply disturbing” and accused her of “playing political games in a homicide investigation.”
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.