Suspect arrested in reference to druggings and robberies in New York Metropolis

Police have arrested one in every of three males needed in reference to a sequence of drugging deaths and robberies in New York Metropolis. Jacob Barroso, 30, faces homicide, theft, grand larceny, identification theft and conspiracy costs, police introduced Sunday.

Jayqwan Hamilton, 35, and Robert Demaio, 34, are nonetheless being sought by police in reference to the crimes.

Police allege that each one three males are linked to a “citywide theft sample” that encompasses no less than 17 incidents that occurred between September 2021 and August 2022. These incidents embody the deaths of Julio Cesar Ramirez, 25, and John Umberger, 33. 

Roughly 5 weeks aside, each males had been drugged, robbed after which died after leaving homosexual bars in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. Each males had been seen leaving the bar with a number of strangers, in accordance with CBS New York.

Not less than one different individual, Shane Hoskins, has been indicted in reference to the crimes. Court docket paperwork allege that Hoskins was a part of a plot to method intoxicated individuals leaving nightclubs, have interaction them in dialog after which provide them incapacitating medicine so “their capability to understand occasions turned diminished” they usually may rob the victims of their “telephones and bank cards” or different property. 

Hoskins was dealing with a number of counts that embody theft, conspiracy, grand larceny and identification theft.

A number of different individuals had been indicted together with Hoskins, however their names and the costs towards them had been sealed and redacted in courtroom paperwork obtained by CBS Information. It was not instantly clear if Barroso, Hamilton or Demaio had been amongst these whose names had been redacted.

—Gina Martinez, Kerry Breen and Cara Tabachnick contributed reporting.