LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The second man accused of impersonating a DTE employee and murdering a person inside his Rochester Hills dwelling has been arrested, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Division introduced Monday.
The person, whose identify has not been publicly launched, was arrested at round 1:40 p.m. Monday in Plymouth Township after a site visitors cease. Police say he didn’t resist arrest.
Police haven’t offered data on the unnamed man’s potential prices. Nonetheless, the person is accused of collaborating with Carlos Jose Hernandez, 37, in impersonating DTE staff to achieve entry to what police name an “upscale home” within the 3700 block of Newcastle Drive and murdering one of many occupants, 72-year-old Hussein Murray.
The pair allegedly confirmed up on the dwelling on the night of Thursday, Oct. 10, claiming there was a fuel leak, however had been turned away by the householders. The next day, they confirmed up once more and had been allowed inside the house, with Murray signing a bit of paper the lads claimed was from DTE.
Murray then accompanied the 2 males down into the basement to search for the leak. His spouse didn’t see him return upstairs and, on the time, believed him to have been kidnapped. When the 2 males returned upstairs, they requested her the place the cash and jewellery had been and duct-taped her wrists and ankles. At one level, she started to scream, and Hernandez allegedly hit her throughout the face.
The 2 males then allegedly searched the home, took the girl’s telephone and watch, and left in an older mannequin white pick-up truck with a DTE signal on the facet.
Deputies had been dispatched to the house shortly earlier than midday on Friday, Oct. 11 after Murray’s spouse referred to as 911. Once they arrived on the scene, they discovered Murray’s spouse tied up together with her arms duct-taped. She was briefly hospitalized after the incident however has since been launched.
Whereas looking out the house, deputies discovered Murray’s physique within the basement of the house together with his wrists and ankles duct-taped.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Division stories that Hernandez was taken into custody on Saturday, Oct. 12. in Shreveport, Louisiana. and charged with homicide and two counts of illegal imprisonment. He was arrested on an unspecified warrant out of Ohio and a warrant out of Oakland County for this incident.
Hernandez will seem in a Louisiana courtroom to start extradition to Oakland County for his arraignment.
The investigation is ongoing.
