While taking massacre suspect Francisco Oropesa into custody, police hauled in “up to” five more criminals for bonus points. One of those arrested besides Oropesa is his common-law wife Divimara Lamar Nava, charged with hindering apprehension of the suspect. Dangling $80,000 as a bounty paid off quickly. The phone was ringing off the hook with one tip after another and one of them turned out to be accurate enough. It is already official that the anonymous tipster will get their check. The sheriff noted specifically that the rat was definitely not one of the individuals they just arrested.
Massacre suspect in custody
Fugitive suspect Francisco Oropesa is now safely in jail. The cold blooded killer evaded police for days after shooting five of his Honduran neighbors in the head, execution style. Authorities with several of the agencies involved held a press conference on May 3, to update the public with the latest developments.
“The people arrested are not telling us very much,” a Sheriff’s Department spokesman explains. “Anybody that helped this maniac has definitely got some kind of issues, as far as I’m concerned.”
San Jacinto County’s First Assistant District Attorney, Rob Freyer, announced that an “extensive manhunt for the suspect concluded with his arrest” on Tuesday. They ended up with more criminals than they expected. “multiple people have been arrested.” Officials aren’t saying, who, how many or how they’re connected to Oropesa.
Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) in a joint operation with other law enforcement
just caught Francisco Oropesa, the man wanted for killing five innocent people in Cleveland, Texas.God bless our Law Enforcement. #HonorFirst pic.twitter.com/CfTRkaCai4
— Mayra Flores (@MayraFlores2022) May 3, 2023
San Jacinto County Sheriff Chief Deputy Tim Kean “would not provide an exact number of additional people arrested.” He did admit that “it was no more than five.” There is one exception to the veil of silence. Francisco’s “romantic partner, Divimara Lamar Nava, was among those taken into custody.” Unsurprisingly, she was “charged with hindering apprehension of the suspect.”
One of the reasons police aren’t saying much is because they expect to make some more arrests. “Others are hinging on what’s going on right now,” Kean relates. “It’s fluid.” They nabbed the massacre suspect “at a home in Cut and Shoot, Texas.” That sounds like the perfect town for someone like Francisco.
Despite the fact he methodically strolled room by room through the neighbor’s home, executing half the family as he went, along with the fact he’s been deported five times, the judge is still thinking about allowing him bail. Meanwhile, Prosecutors are “exploring” the “possibility of additional charges for him.”
Big bounty does the trick
It’s clear that the only reason the suspect was brought to justice so rapidly is because of the $80,000 cash reward which was offered. It certainly did the trick.
At the press conference, the officials noted that “U.S. Marshals, U.S. Border Patrol’s tactical unit and the Texas Department of Public Safety arrested Oropesa about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, about an hour after an anonymous caller sent a tip to an FBI hotline.” The big bad cartel killer was found cowering “in a closet underneath some laundry.” They won’t say “whose home he was at.”
Since they already had a search warrant, police went ahead and carried out “multiple pieces of evidence” from that home. Francisco thought he was being slick by ditching his cellphone. He got it half right.
BREAKING: The illegal immigrant Francisco Oropesa who was accused of killing five neighbors in Texas including a 9 year old boy has been arrested 40 miles north of Houston.
According to a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement source, Oropesa has been deported at least four… pic.twitter.com/1LNZkmHBm1
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 3, 2023
By abandoning his phone, along with his smelly clothes, then taking a quick swim, he managed to evade the dogs while cops surrounded his raprod. That’s how the suspect stayed free for as long as he did.
His big mistake was not putting it in airplane mode then entering the wrong password too many times to “brick” it. The FBI quickly had it unlocked and went through his most recent messages. His next big mistake was homing in on one of those he last called. Police homed in too.
When the hot tip about their suspect came in, they were already in the neighborhood. “Oropesa was spotted on foot Monday, causing several elementary schools to be locked down, but officials lost track of him.“
