Dominican murder suspect nabbed in US on traffic stop

Providence, United States.– An illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic, who is wanted on a charge that he killed a man in South Providence, was nabbed in a routine traffic stop in Dillon, South Carolina.

According to law enforcement authorities, Kelbyn Ramirez, a convicted drug dealer who the Providence police have said entered the United States illegally, was a passenger in a southbound Lincoln Navigator sport-utility vehicle bearing temporary Rhode Island license plates that was stopped by a deputy sheriff for following a car too closely on an interstate highway.

The deputy sheriff, according to a report by the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office, public yesterday, found that the driver was not carrying an operator’s license or a vehicle registration.

The driver and the passenger allegedly were unclear about one another’s names and contradicted one another in answering questions about their relationship and the origin of their trip, and by inquiring further, deputies said they learned that both men lied about their identities.

Using a drug-sniffing dog, deputies said they discovered four pounds of marijuana wrapped in a towel in a duffel bag inside the SUV.

In an unrelated slaying in South Providence, David Mello yesterday was arraigned in Rhode Island District Court and ordered held without bail on three charges in connection with the shooting death of Marc Quintal on Aug. 15.

Ramirez’s identity was confirmed by an examination of his fingerprints, according to Providence police Maj. Stephen Campbell. The traffic stop occurred July 17, but Ramirez’s apprehension was not disclosed by the Providence police until now. It was not immediately clear if the delay was due to the time it took to confirm Ramirez’s identity.

Ramirez is named in an arrest warrant accusing him of murder in the May 14 shooting death of an acquaintance, Aneuris Caceres, 21, of 135 Colfax St., South Providence, in what the police described as a senseless street argument.

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