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Caught: Hit and Run Fugitive Arrested

The man wanted for the hit-and-run that killed a young Brooklyn couple was taken into custody by authorities in Pennsylvania, the NYPD said.

Julio Acevedo, 44, was nabbed at the Turkey Hill Mini Mart on Route 68 in Bethlehem, PA, where the NYPD had arrangements to meet the driver, cops said.

The arrangements were made by Acevedo’s pal, Derrick Hamilton, who arrived with the Brooklyn North Warrant Violent Felony Squad and the US Marshal Regional Task Force around 5:10 pm.

He was taken to State Police Troop M barracks – and police now must extradite him back to New York.

The news came after a three-day manhunt for Acevedo, who faces charges over the Sunday hit-and-run deaths of Nachman and Raizy Glaubel and their baby boy.

NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly said earlier that cops had been in contact with the ex-con’s pal, Derrick Hamilton.

“He said the individual wants to turn himself in, and he was going to do it he believed today with an attorney,” Kelly said, adding that cops weren’t sure if “this is a game or what.”

Acevedo, who was busted for drunken driving just two week before the high-speed crash, told ABC News/Channel 7 yesterday that he was fleeing a gunman in Fort Greene when he smashed into the couple. The newlyweds were on their way to the hospital.

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  • illegal alien

    why does everyone harp on the whole illegal alien thing? There are plenty of illegal immigrants here who are honest and hardworking, (and may I add do all the menial jobs for very little pay that we would never agree to do) and plenty of US citizens who are low lives like this guy is. Citzinship status has nothing to do with behavior and moral actions.

    • Milhouse

      Because a large proportion of illegal immigrants are violent criminals. Which makes sense, since anyone willing to commit crimes that actually hurt people will of course be willing to also commit victimless crimes, whereas among people who are not violent criminals there are many who are not willing to commit any crime. So among those who do immigrate illegally there will be some who will only commit victimless crimes, but also many who will commit any crime, and those are undesirable people to have here. When they are caught, the government has a duty to deport them, and that clearly was not done here, and we see the result.

      And what has citizenship status got to do with it? This isn’t about citizenship status, it’s about illegal status.

  • Z

    I am mortified by the barbaric comments I see here. I am ashamed to be a Crown Heights Lubavitcher.

    #1, #2 and #6 you should be ashamed of yourselves. Summary execution is for the KGB and Nazis, not America.

    #5 If you looked at the actual data you would see that undocumented immigrants have a lower per-capita crime rate than the average American citizen.

    #3 It was an accident. The worst thing this man did was flee the scene. You probably would have done the same if you were in his shoes. Not that he shouldn’t be punished for it, but it should fit the crime. It shouldn’t be based on how sad you feel.

    No, I am not a liberal. I am a Conservative who firmly believes in the Constitution and let facts inform my opinions – not the other way around.

    • Milhouse

      ” If you looked at the actual data you would see that undocumented immigrants have a lower per-capita crime rate than the average American citizen.”

      First of all, that is not true. Why don’t *you* look at the data? Second, the term “undocumented immigrant” is dishonest. It’s an attempt to obscure the fact that they are *illegal*, but it’s also a lie — they have documents! They have as many documents as you like; they’re just forged or stolen.

  • hashem yishmar

    #1 #2 #3 and #6! MIND YOUR FACTS!!!!!!
    THIS WAS HASHEMS PLAN!!!!!!!! IF IT WASN’T THAT ALEIN GUY, IT COULDV’E BEEN A FRUM CHASSIDISHE MAN\ WOMEN!!! HASHEM JUST PUTS THOSE PEOPLE IN THAT PLACE AT THAT TIME!!! YOU THINK THE GUY DID IT ON PURPOSE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! TRUE HE RAN AWAY, BUT WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE???? STOOD THERE WAITING TO BE ARRESTED? IF IT WAS HASHEMS WILL, THE BABY WOULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED BIRTH, NOR NACHMAN AV”H OR RAIZEL AV”H! IM MORTIFIED AT YOU ALL! IM NOT AN ADULT, IM A KID BUT I STILL KNOW THAT YOUR COMMENTS ARE TOTALLY ANTI-MEXICANS (IF THATS WHAT HE IS) AND YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU WOULDN’T HAVE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT EXCECUTING OR STUFF IF IT WERE A JEW, FRUM OR NOT FRUM. IM ASHAMED THAT A LUBAVITCH CHASSIDISH OR JUST JEWISH PERSON CAN EVEN SAY SUCH THINGS. IF THIS WAS A PUBLIC SIGHT (NON-JEWS WENT ON TO) THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST CHILUL HASHEM!!!!!!!!!! please take my words into consideration. thank you.

    a kid….

    • Anon

      @ Milhouse

      Your contradicting yourself. And how much free time do you have? You comments on everything.

  • Great Dane

    “The worst thing this man did was flee the scene”?! WHAT? He was doing 60 MPH in the city and ran an intersection!

  • Bill

    A confirmed illegal alien from the Dominican Republic. Already been deported before! Why was he not turned over to ICE when he was arrested for DUI 2 weeks ago! Good job Bloomberg.

    United States Of America v. Julio Amezquito Acevedo
    229 F3d 350
    Julio Amezquito Acevedo appeals from a judgment of conviction and sentence entered on October 26, 1999 by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jones, J.). Acevedo pled guilty to one count of illegally reentering the United States after being deported from the country following a conviction for an aggravated felony in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326(a), (b)(2).

    Acevedo, a native of the Dominican Republic, first entered the United States in January 1984. In October 1985, Acevedo pled guilty to manslaughter in New York Supreme Court, New York County, and was sentenced in December 1985 to a term of six to eighteen years’ imprisonment. In November 1990, he was deported to the Dominican Republic in connection with the manslaughter conviction. Acevedo apparently failed to surrender his green card to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) upon deportation, although such surrender is routinely required. See United States v. Gay, 7 F.3d 200, 200-01 (11th Cir. 1993); United States v. Almonte, No. 98 Cr. 666 (JFK), 1998 WL 782023, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 6, 1998); Aliens and Nationality, 8 C.F.R. § 246.

    http://judicialview.com/Court-Cases/Immigration/United-States-Of-America-v.-Julio-Amezquito-Acevedo/30/182387