Arizona prosecutor slams soft-on-crime DA Bragg, refuses to send suspect in Soho hotel murder back to NYC
NY Post
An Arizona prosecutor says she won’t ship the suspect in a vicious Soho hotel slaying back to the Big Apple because she doesn’t trust Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg to do the right thing, telling reporters on Wednesday, “I think it’s safer to keep him here.”
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said Raad Almansoori, who is sought in the beating death of a Queens mom at a Manhattan hotel earlier this month, will remain behind bars on her turf because of Bragg’s track record handling hardened criminals.
“I know there’s been discussion about New York wanting to extradite this individual,” Mitchell said during a press conference. “This is not aimed at the New York Police Department at all. I know they did a hard job and they did a good job. But we will not be agreeing to extradition.
“I’ve instructed my extradition attorneys not to agree to that,” she said. “We’re gonna keep him here. These are mandatory prison sentences. Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the Manhattan DA there, Alvin Bragg, I think it’s safer to keep him here.
“And keep him in custody so that he cannot be out doing this to individuals either in our state, county or anywhere in the United States.”
Almansoori, 26, is being held without bail in Arizona on charges that he carjacked and stabbed one woman and kidnapped and slashed a McDonald’s employee last week — just days after the NYPD says he beat and strangled Denisse Oleas-Arancibia to death inside Soho 54 Hotel on. Feb. 7.
