Critics of Democratic prosecutors warn that Raad Almansoori, a murder suspect, may show signs of being a serial killer and do not want to set him free.
If so, it would be the second time he was released in a matter of months. Almansoori is accused of killing a woman in a hotel in SoHo by way of strangulation and blunt force trauma to her skull.
Fox News reports that surveillance cameras observed the suspect leaving the hotel wearing the leggings of the deceased. He reportedly traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, where he is alleged to have stabbed a woman and stole her car before traveling to McDonald's and stabbing another woman before being arrested in Scottsdale.
According to court documents, he was dropped from a Florida case just months before his latest crime wave after being accused of abducting, sexually assaulting, and threatening to kill a co-worker.
Florida prosecutors would eventually drop most of the charges.
Possibly a Serial Killer
Fox further reports that Almansoori told law enforcement officials to Google SoHo 54 hotel, which is where NYPD alleges he murdered Denisse Oleas-Arancibia.
The suspect is now being held at a jail in Arizona where local DA Rachel Mitchell argued with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's "progressive policies" and New York laws allowing suspects to be released on low or no bail have created a dangerous situation throughout the country.
"It was just a couple of weeks ago that some of the illegal immigrants that were in New York City who beat up on police officers were let go," Mitchell said. "They were flipping the camera off as they walked out of jail, and guess where they ended up?
"Four of them ended up in Maricopa County, and they had to be taken into custody here. I don't want that to happen. I don't want this individual getting out and able to victimize more people."
The fighting for custody of Almonsoori is not the first time the suspect has been involved in such a circumstance. While being held in Sumter County, Florida, on grand theft auto charges, the suspect was served a warrant for sexual battery and assault in Orlando.
The victim in that case, Leah Palian, says Orlando prosecutors ignored warnings that the murder suspect could possibly be a serial killer.
"I saw that statement they put out, and they said they didn't have enough evidence," she told Fox News Digital. "To that, I would like to say I don't think that this is a case of evidence or lack thereof, I think it's a case of evidence."
"I actually do not know about other state's judicial systems. I just know about my state and how it failed me," she said. "I want whatever is going to keep this man behind bars and is going to keep him off the streets and keep women safe."
Though never arrested in New York, the suspect had come into contact with law enforcement in Florida, a Republican state, on more than one occasion.
The ire of Rachel Mitchell toward Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, as well as her consternation over "progressive" New York laws, appears moot in the case of Almonsoori in light of that fact.
