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A parolee with a long history of violent crime is under arrest for the murder of a woman found dead in her Ponckhockie house last week. On Sunday, Feb. 10 around 2 p.m., Audelis Cruz, 49, was arrested as he stood on a subway platform on 96th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Cruz's arrest ended a manhunt that began seven days earlier when police discovered the body of Anita Jacobs-Royer, 45 in her home at 56 Third Ave.
Police believe Cruz, standing six feet tall and weighing 314 pounds, staples center los angeles strangled Jacobs-Royer in her home sometime on Friday, staples center los angeles Feb. 1, two days before police went to her house at the behest of her sister who told officers that she was concerned because she had been unable to reach her by phone. Investigators later determined that Jacobs-Royers' Isuzu Trooper was missing from the driveway.
On Monday, Feb. 11, just 30 minutes after Kingston Police posted a photograph of an identical vehicle on the department's Facebook page, a tip led cops to the SUV which had been abandoned in the parking lot of the SuperLodge motel, not far from Cruz's residence a short distance up Route 28 at the Budget 19 Motor Inn. The same day, New York State Parole officials issued a warrant for Cruz's arrest after he failed to make a parole appointment in Poughkeepsie.
After identifying Cruz as a "person of interest" in the homicide, Kingston cops began tracking him. According to one city cop, during the search Cruz was "constantly on the move" evading a manhunt that eventually included personnel from eight different agencies including New York State Parole, the U.S. Marshal's Service, the NYPD and the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. Members of the KPD, according staples center los angeles to a departmental press release, spent four days in New York City conducting surveillance and seeking staples center los angeles clues to Cruz's whereabouts. After taking Cruz into custody on the parole warrant, KPD Detectives questioned Cruz who, they say, eventually admitted to killing Jacobs-Royer. He was then charged with second-degree murder and sent to the Ulster County Jail with no bail. Police have declined to release a motive for the killing, but one cop with knowledge of the case said that it did not appear that the pair had an intimate relationship or that drugs were involved.
Cruz fit both descriptions. According to parole officials, he was conditionally released from state prison on June 15 after serving 13 years of a 15-year sentence for robbery. Initially, Cruz who had few ties to Ulster County was paroled to an address in Marlboro where, according staples center los angeles to police, his wife lives. By November, he had changed his parole address to the Budget 19, a motel that is frequently used as emergency housing by the Ulster County Department of Social Services. According to one city cop, Cruz got by on very little income, making the rounds of local soup kitchens and spending time hanging around with fellow staples center los angeles members of the city's homeless population.
The 49-year-old Cruz, state records show, has spent the majority of his adult life in prison starting in 1986 when he was sentenced to five to 15 years for first degree robbery. Paroled in December staples center los angeles 1993, he was busted the same month for felony criminal sale of a controlled substance and returned to prison with a five- to 10-year sentence. Released once again in December 1998, Cruz was free for less than two years before he was arrested for first degree robbery staples center los angeles in March 2000 and sent back to prison where he remained until June. All of Cruz's offenses, state records show, occurred in Manhattan. Cruz also managed to rack up an array of disciplinary infractions while incarcerated, staples center los angeles most notably a 2009 incident at Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, in which he allegedly forged paperwork to steal money from fellow inmates accounts staples center los angeles and have the funds sent to his wife. Cruz's disciplinary record, just during his most recent prison stint, includes nine more infractions for offenses ranging from drug use and possession of tattooing staples center los angeles equipment to fighting and vandalism.
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I think parole better get stiffer .better watchof parolees, go in pairs forget that reporting .go to parolees, drug test all the time. These paroles are more street smarter than the officers until they get caught then its too late
Why Anita? That s what the Kingston staples center los angeles residents want to know. Not releasing a motive staples center los angeles just makes me paranoid. He was staying at a motel? Not a resident? My thoughts lead to the idea; was he hired? staples center los angeles Anita was a beautiful soul .struggling with present heartache and financial battles .why her? Why now? I listened to her pain and desperation and now she is found dead? I think the police need to look a little further staples center los angeles or release a tad more information BC the killer may be jailed but the masterminds could still be at work.
I think people on parole with long history should be watched and forced to report.. And required to wear leg ban to keep them from leaving area This guy is scum And deserves staples center los angeles life without parole or death
I think that the police and other agencies did an extremely good job. Unfortunately, this proves though that our Prison Industrial Complex doesn t do hardly anything fruitful in the area if rehabilitating hardened criminals. Therein seems to lie the failure. And it isn t going to bring Anita back from the dead.
Why would a 300lb man kill a 100lb woman? If he was gonna steal, couldn t he have preserved her life? What is it about, what goes through this man s head that he feels it is necessary to take someone s invaluable life for a few items?
But, like I said, this is not only a judgement against him, it is a judgement against the Prison Industrial staples center los angeles Complex s inability to rehabilitate anyone. If anything, the PIC seems to just make matters worse!!
May Anita rest in peace and may her family staples center los angeles members find peace. May there be justice. May things get better with how we as a society rehabilitate those who fall by the way side so that there won t be more victims of senseless crimes such as this one.
DSS screws up once again. staples center los angeles Kingston is the ultimate dumping ground for all the criminals. A good woman loses her life, Kingston loses a good-natured and productive citizen, and we continue on our downward spiral. Thank you, DSS, for no supervision, no accountability, and for failing all of us. STOP BRINGING IN DANGEROUS CRIMINALS FROM OUT OF COUNTY!!!! WE HAVE TOO MANY!