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Man arrested on homicide prices in homosexual bar drugging scheme- Mrit Extra


A suspect was arrested in connection to the homicides of a minimum of one of many two males who have been drugged and killed in separate incidents following visits to New York Metropolis homosexual bars final yr, a New York Police Division spokesperson stated Sunday.

Jacob Barroso, 30, was charged with homicide, theft, grand larceny and conspiracy in connection to the dying of Julio Ramirez, a 25-year-old social employee and a separate incident the place an unidentified sufferer didn’t die, police investigators stated. 

Ramirez and John Umberger, a 33-year-old political advisor, have been each discovered useless after visiting homosexual bars within the metropolis’s full of life Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood final spring.

John Umberger; Julio Ramirez.
John Umberger and Julio Ramirez have been drugged and killed in separate incidents following visits to New York Metropolis homosexual bars.Linda Clary; Household photograph

Each had left the bars with a minimum of one unknown particular person earlier than their financial institution accounts have been drained of 1000’s of {dollars} utilizing facial recognition entry on their telephones, in accordance with their relations.

Final month, the medical expert’s workplace dominated their deaths as homicides brought on by a “drug-facilitated theft.” A number of medication have been discovered of their techniques, together with fentanyl, lidocaine and cocaine. Barroso was not charged within the dying of Umberger, and it stays unclear who’s liable for his killing.

Barroso’s arrest on Saturday comes shortly after police requested the general public’s help on Friday to seek out him and two different suspects — Jayqwan Hamilton, 35, and Robert Demaio, 34 — believed to be related to the homicides. 

Two legislation enforcement officers confirmed with NBC Information final week {that a} Manhattan grand jury has indicted a number of suspects in reference to the deaths of Umberger and Ramirez. One of many suspects, Shane Hoskins, was arraigned on felony larceny and identification theft prices, prosecutors stated. It’s unclear if Barroso, Hamilton and Demaio are three of the opposite defendants, as components of the indictment stay sealed.

As soon as the victims have been “incapacitated to the extent that their capability to understand occasions turned diminished,” in accordance with an indictment, the 5 co-conspirators would then steal their victims’ cell telephones and bank cards and use the bodily playing cards and knowledge saved on the victims’ telephones to switch cash to themselves and make purchases. 

The 2 officers additionally instructed NBC Information that the 5 suspects have been concentrating on victims for monetary achieve and never due to their sexual orientation. Nonetheless, they added that the New York Metropolis Police Division’s Hate Crime Job Power is aiding within the investigation.

Within the months after Umberger’s and Ramirez’s deaths, extra homosexual New Yorkers stepped ahead with eerily comparable accounts to Ramirez’s and Umberger’s. NBC Information has spoken with a number of homosexual males who stated they survived comparable incidents from December 2021 to October 2022.

The NYPD beforehand confirmed with NBC Information that there are a number of teams of criminals committing these kind of crimes in opposition to males visiting town’s homosexual bars. Police additionally confirmed that comparable crimes have been being dedicated in opposition to patrons of bars with none LGBTQ affiliation.

Final week, the New York Metropolis medical expert’s workplace additionally confirmed that it’s investigating “a number of further deaths in comparable circumstances” to these of Ramirez and Umberger. It’s unclear, nevertheless, in the event that they have been discovered useless after visiting homosexual bars or whether or not they have been related to the indicted suspects.

A spokesperson for the medical expert’s workplace stated they “couldn’t remark additional because of the ongoing prison investigations.”

The 2 legislation enforcement officers additionally instructed NBC Information that there’s a separate group suspected of committing comparable crimes on 26 victims. The officers stated that dressmaker Kathryn Marie Gallagher, whose dying in July was dominated a drug-facilitated murder by the medical expert’s workplace, was one of many subsequent group’s victims.

Kenzi Abou-Sabe contributed.




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