A Florida man who was on the run from police after allegedly killing a man in a squatter’s home has been arrested after a routine traffic stop, police records show.
Miami police responded to a vacant home on the city’s northeast side last Sunday where they found a fatal shooting victim identified as Lamont Ferguson, according to NBC Miami.
The house was owned by a local immigration attorney, Maria Escandell, but while she was working to renovate the property, squatters allegedly moved in and took over.
“Someone breaks into a house, they change the lock and they live there like they own the property. We called the police, we made a report and the police told us not to do anything, stay away from the property because they need to investigate,” Escandell told the outlet.
From Sunday through Wednesday, police in the area investigated the shooting and searched for the perpetrator until a routine traffic stop for an expired license plate helped crack the case, NBC Miami reported.
The driver of the car, 45-year-old Larry March, reportedly fumbled during the stop, and police found “cocaine cookies,” a machete and a handgun in the vehicle.
From Sunday through Wednesday, police in the area investigated the shooting and searched for the perpetrators until a routine traffic stop for expired license plates helped crack the case. Google Maps
While he was in police custody, a woman identified as Mac’s girlfriend told police that the suspect had kidnapped him and claimed he was behind Ferguson’s murder the previous Sunday.
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The woman, who has not been identified, told police that on Wednesday, March became angry because she was texting other people, including co-workers, according to prosecutors.
“He wants to look through his phone. And then he gets agitated after seeing text messages from other people and then he starts attacking her. He feared for his life. Pulled out a gun, waved the gun at him, said ‘tell me the truth,’” a state attorney said in court describing the allegations, NBC Miami reported.
He allegedly forced her into his car and punched her repeatedly.
He managed to get away just hours before he was pulled over for an expired tag, according to the indictment.
The girlfriend claims she was at the house the squatters overtook on the day March reportedly killed Ferguson.
He said March shot Ferguson four to five times before they fled the scene, NBC Miami reported.
Police investigated the gun recovered from March’s vehicle and said it matched the weapon used to shoot Ferguson.
Mac was denied bond and charged with kidnapping, battery, drug possession and second-degree murder.
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