The authorities believe the man's wife was one of the people who provided assistance. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The announcement pointed to assistance that the suspect, Francisco Oropesa, may have had from relatives and others who lived near his home in eluding capture for four days while a search stretched across Texas to the Mexican border.
On Wednesday, Mr Tim Kean, the chief deputy of the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office, said “several arrests” had been made in the case and more were expected.During the search, officials said that Nava was cooperating with investigators. “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.
Mr Kean added that investigators did not believe that Oropesa had spent the whole four days of the search at the house where he was ultimately found, and that he probably was the person who was spotted near a landfill on Monday.Oropesa,has been charged with five counts of murder and is being held on US$5 million bond, Sheriff Capers said. On Tuesday night, Oropesa was transferred to a San Jacinto County jail.
State and federal law enforcement officials had been searching for Oropesa in the thick forests around his home outside Cleveland, in neighbouring counties and as far south as the border with Mexico, where, officials believed, he might have been trying to flee. Mr Paul did not elaborate on the nature of the tip or who had left it. Officials had offered rewards totalling US$80,000 for information leading to Oropesa’s arrest.Officials said that late on Friday, Oropesa was firing a gun in his front yard outside Cleveland, on a plot of land smaller than an acre in a row of similarly sized properties along a rutted dirt road. His immediate neighbours, a family from Honduras, complained about the noise around 11.30pm, both to Oropesa and by calling 911.
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