wint 1-31-14(Via Daily Mail) Police have captured the man suspected of torturing and killing a family and their housekeeper before setting the mansion alight.

Daron Wint, 34, is wanted for the murders of American Iron Works CEO Savvas Savopoulos, his wife Amy, son Philip and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa.

The dramatic arrest on Thursday night came after US Marshalls located Wind (sic) at a Howard Johnson Inn hotel close to Route 1 in Northeast DC, police told Daily Mail Online.

When they moved in to arrest him they discovered he had just left in a white Chevrolet Cruze, which was accompanied by a Ford Box Truck, allegedly filled with cash.

At 11pm, after tailing the vehicles with the help of a helicopter, the officers cornered them on Rhode Island Avenue, at the interchange with 12th Street.

Five other people, including his brother, were arrested with him and taken into custody without incident, chief Cathy Lanier confirmed. 

The arrests end a week-long search in a sprawling investigation that still has more questions than answers.

[…] ‘They were able to combine information that we were developing and we were able to track him to a location here on Route 1 at the Howard Johnsons.

‘We were planning on going into the hotel and taking him down. When we approached we realized he was in a vehicle.

‘We followed that vehicle. It went north on Route 1. It was following a mid-sized box truck.

‘They did a u-turn and came south down Route 1 all the way down Rhode Island Avenue.

‘We got to a safe location, we called Prince George’s County Police and they put up a helicopter for us.

‘Once we got to a good location we were able to pin the vehicle in and extract him safely – nobody got hurt, nobody got injured.

‘There was multiple people taken into custody. Wint was in the rear vehicle and he was a passenger.’   (read more)

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