Oropesa - whose face stared out from large Spanish-language posters around San Jacinto County, about an hour’s drive north of downtown Houston - roughly 10 miles from the scene of the killings. Oropesa in the thick woods around his home outside Cleveland, in neighboring counties and as far south as the border with Mexico, where, officials believed, he might have been trying to flee.īut in the end, officers found Mr. State and federal law enforcement officials had been searching for Mr. Then tactical officers from several agencies “meandered over there and found that tip to be true.” He said Mr. “Somebody got a tip,” Sheriff Capers said in a Tuesday night news conference. Property records indicated that the house belonged to one of his relatives. Oropesa was found, which is near the town of Cut and Shoot. Sheriff Capers declined to say on Tuesday who owned the house where Mr. Oropesa was being transferred to a San Jacinto County jail. Oropesa, who has been deported four times, has been charged with five counts of murder and is being held on $5 million bond, Sheriff Capers said. Though officers rushed to that location, Mr.
Oropesa had spent the whole four days of the manhunt at the house where he was ultimately found, and that he probably was the person who was spotted near a landfill on Monday. Kean added that investigators did not believe that Mr. Officers found a different cellphone belonging to Mr. Oropesa was on the run, he made use of a cellphone to call several people who were not far from the house where he was eventually arrested. “Anybody that helped this maniac has definitely got some kind of issues,” Mr. Nava has been charged with hindering the apprehension of a known felon, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, and is being held in Montgomery County. Nava lived together in the home next to where the shooting took place in San Jacinto County. “The message from him was him requesting assistance to get him to Mexico,” a prosecutor said, reading from arrest paperwork the cousin did not provide that assistance. Prosecutors also said that she had passed a message from Mr.
Oropesa had showered and slept and that she had fetched him doughnuts from a nearby store. on Tuesday, about 17 hours before his capture.ĭuring her interview with the police, according to prosecutors, Ms. Oropesa was and that she had told them that he arrived there only around 1:30 a.m. Prosecutors said during the hearing that she had granted officers access to the home where Mr. Nava, 52, appeared in court on Wednesday. Oropesa was found and arrested on Tuesday, and investigators now believe she assisted him in evading capture. But she was at the house in Montgomery County where Mr.
Oropesa, those arrested included a woman described as his wife, Divimara Nava.ĭuring the manhunt, officials said that Ms.
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