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OCTOBER
20TH, 2002
A man suspected of stealing a car at gunpoint in New Jersey and
then fatally shooting two livery cab drivers in the Bronx was arrested
trying to run a crossing on the Canadian border Sunday, police said.
Roberto Mayen, 26, crossed into Canada but later failed to stop
at the border crossing as he re-entered the United States, in Maine,
according to police. He led U.S. Customs officers on a 20-mile chase
before they finally caught him, police said.
Authorities said Mayen was driving the silver Audi sedan that was
carjacked from an elderly couple in Fort Lee Saturday evening and
then spotted at the scenes of the fatal shootings in the Bronx about
an hour later. Police said he had switched the license plates with
his own vehicle, a Honda registered in Virginia, which was later
found by investigators.
Mayen was armed with a handgun and three martial arts knives taped
to his legs, at the time of his arrest, according to police, and
a box of ammunition was found in his own car.
About twelve hours earlier, Mayen allegedly pulled alongside a livery
cab on Commonwealth Avenue and shot the driver, 35-year-old Joe
Robles, eight times. Ten minutes later and two miles away, another
livery driver, 30-year-old Valencia Kleber, was shot standing beside
his cab on White Plains Road, also by Mayen, police said.
Robles and Valencia were pronounced dead on arrival at Jacobi Hospital.
Mayen was being held by customs officers, and New York City detectives
traveled to Maine to interview him. Police had not yet determined
a motive and did not know whether Mayen knew either of the victims.
The apparent randomness of the murders reminded residents of the
pattern of the shootings in Washington, D.C. “I thought it
was the sniper,” said one Bronx man who heard the shots. “I
was scared.”
The NYPD actually notified the sniper task force of the arrest,
because Mayer is from northern Virginia and is also a former Marine.
However, police said there was no evidence to link him to the more
than dozen shootings in the Washington suburbs.
The manhunt that the Bronx shootings prompted was also reminiscent
of the response to the sniper attacks.
“Police checkpoints were set up at all the bridges and tunnels,
and we coordinated with the Port Authority Police, the New York.
State Police, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority police,”
said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announcing the arrest Sunday.
“Approximately 600 police officers were held over their tours
of duty so that a grid search of every street in the five boroughs
could be conducted.”
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