Arizona district attorney declines to extradite suspect in NYC hotel slaying, states Manhattan DA can’t be relied on

An Arizona district attorney stated Wednesday that her workplace will not extradite the male implicated of eliminating a lady in a New York City hotel, calling out Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's “treatment of violent lawbreakers.”

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell informed press reporters in Arizona that she's bought her personnel not to work together in any efforts to send out Raad Noan Almansoori, 26, back to New York where he's desired in connection to the slaying of Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, 38.

“This is not targeted at the New York Police Department at all. I understand they did a difficult task, they did an excellent task, however we will not be consenting to extradition,” Mitchell stated. “I've advised my extradition lawyers not to consent to that. We're going to keep him here.”

Almansoori is being held without bail in Arizona, where he's been implicated of stabbing 2 ladies.

“Having observed the treatment of violent wrongdoers in the New York location by the Manhattan DA there, Alvin Bragg,” Mitchell stated, “I believe it's much safer to keep him here and keep him in custody so that he can not be out doing this to people either in our state, county or throughout the United States.”

Emily Tuttle, an agent for Bragg, stated it's “deeply troubling that” Mitchell is “playing political video games in a murder examination.”

The Arizona district attorney's actions stink to the “NYPD and all of our police partners,” Tuttle included.

“It is a slap in the face to them and to the victim in our case to decline to permit us to look for justice and complete responsibility for a New Yorker's death,” Tuttle stated in a declaration.

The Manhattan DA's Office mentioned information that appeared to reveal murders being more typical in Phoenix, the biggest city in Maricopa County, as compared to New York City, in which Manhattan is among 5 districts.

“In Manhattan, we are major about New Yorkers' security,” Tuttle stated. “New York's murder rate is less than half that of Phoenix.”

There were 198 murders in Phoenix, with about 1.6 million homeowners, in 2015 rather than 386 in New York City, where 8.3 million individuals live, in 2023, according records in both cities. Bragg's workplace states that equates to a murder rate, per 100,000 homeowners, of 11.6 for Phoenix and 5 for Manhattan.

Mitchell, a Republican, didn't mention any specific case or grievance she had with Bragg, a Democrat, who ended up being Manhattan's very first Black district lawyer in 2022 after he was chosen in November 2021.

Mitchell is no complete stranger to high profile political fights, having actually been employed by Senate Republicans to lead the questioning in the Supreme Court election battle that ended with Brett Kavanaugh's verification in 2018.

On her Maricopa County profile page, Mitchell credits her work for the GOP in the extremely advertised Kavanaugh hearings with assisting her increase “to nationwide prominence”

Bragg was chosen on a progressive platform targeted at re-prioritizing what the District Attorney's Office would pursue and pulling back from prosecuting some misdemeanors.

He and other progressive district attorneys have actually come under fire from standard police groups.

Almansoori was detained in the parking lot of a Scottsdale shopping center after automated license plate readers traced him there, authorities stated.

“This gentlemen was going to continue this string of violence,” Scottsdale Police Chief Jeff Walther stated. “He was going to do so there, at the Scottsdale Fashion Square.”

In the New York City slaying, Oleas-Arancibia was discovered dead in her space at the SoHo 54 Hotel in Manhattan on Feb. 8, the NYPD has actually stated.

Officers were contacted us to Room 1109 around 10:30 a.m. and discovered Oleas-Arancibia with a damaged iron beside her, cops stated. The female's death was ruled a murder by the medical inspector, from blunt force injury to the head, authorities stated.

In Arizona, Almansoori is implicated of stabbing 2 females, one throughout a carjacking in Phoenix and the other, a McDonald's worker, in the dining establishment's females's space in Surprise, authorities stated.