
US Marshals capture Dominican fugitive wanted for murdering upstate NY family of four — including young kids, 2 and 4
A Dominican fugitive wanted for slaughtering a family of four in upstate New York last summer was tracked down and arrested by US Marshals in the Dominican Republic Wednesday, officials said.
Luis Francisco Soriano, 31, allegedly killed two children, ages 2 and 4, and their parents in their Irondequoit, NY, home, which was then burned to the ground on August 31, 2024, according to Fox News.
'Every case is important to us, but this one not only deeply impacted our communities in New York and Puerto Rico, it shook our entire nation,' Wilmer Ocasio-Ibarra, US Marshal for the District of Puerto Rico said Wednesday in a release.
'The horrific nature of this crime, which resulted in the tragic death of a family, including two innocent children, rocked the very foundation of our society governed by law and order,' Ocasio-Ibarra added.
3 Luis Francisco Soriano was captured by US Marshals in Puerto Rico.
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3 Julio Soriano was arrested just one week after the disturbing attack.
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Soriano, who originally fled to Puerto Rico and then to the DR, was taken into custody outside of a Punta Cana hotel's call center after he finished a shift, US Marshals said.
The 31-year-old allegedly committed the heinous crime with the help of his brother Julio Soriano, 34, who was arrested just one week after the disturbing attack, which allegedly targeted a cousin of the Sorianos, WHAM reported.
3 Fraime Ubaldo (right), Marangely Moreno-Santiago, Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno, and Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno were found murdered while firefighters worked to put out fires at their home.
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Fraime Ubaldo, 30; Marangely Moreno Santiago, 26; Evangeline Ubaldo Moreno, 4; and Sebastian Ubaldo Moreno, 2, were killed allegedly by their kin who then fled the United States, according to that report.
Soriano faces four counts of second-degree murder and narcotics charges in the United States and will be held in the Dominican Republic pending extradition hearings, according to Fox News.

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