Murder suspect featured on 'America's Most Wanted' arrested in Chinatown

March 17, 2008
FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS
A man featured on America’s Most Wanted for allegedly murdering his wife and stepson in California in 1998 was arrested in the Near South Side’s Chinatown neighborhood late Sunday, police said.

About 11:10 p.m., police arrested the man at an apartment at the 200 block of West 24th Place after police received a tip from a Chinese news agency about the suspect’s whereabouts, according to a Prairie District police lieutenant.

» Click to enlarge image Police said Fu Lin Wang executed his wife and stepson with witnesses nearby.
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» Click to enlarge image Fu Lin Wang had been wanted on a warrant issued in 1998 out of Alhambra Calif., for homicide.
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The suspect was identified as Fu Lin Wang, according to Prairie District police officer Jonathan Cohen, who arrested Wang without incident late Sunday with his partner, Matthew Nelson.

Cohen said Wang has eight or nine tattoos, which helped in identifying him.

“It can’t be mistaken, with tattoos like that, they were distinct,’’ Cohen said.

Cohen said Wang was one of four people in a third floor apartment of the building at the 24th Place address.

“My partner and I responded and we knocked on the door,’’ Cohen said. One of the four let them in and the officers tried communicating with the occupants, most of whom could not speak English.

“Only one person spoke very little English,’’ Cohen said.

Wang was using a cane after suffering a recent stroke, Cohen said.

Wang had been wanted on a warrant issued in 1998 out of Alhambra Calif., for homicide, according to the lieutenant, who said Cohen has been an officer for five years and Nelson one.

According to American’s Most Wanted’s Web site, California police were still searching for Wang, a Taiwan native. The Web site said Wang was a loan shark in Taiwan who angrily bullied debtors who did not repay their high interest loans on time.

However, as an immigrant living in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, the only person Wang regularly bullied was his wife, the Web site said.

In 1998, police said Wang executed his wife and stepson with witnesses nearby. Now, police want to know if his relatives or Asian gang members are sending him money so he can continue to hide, according to the Web site.

Police will speak with Wang early Monday through an interpreter, as the man does not speak English. At 5 a.m., Wang was being processed at the Central District police station, where extradition paperwork is expected to be filed.

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