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ARIZONA REFUSES TO SEND MURDER SUSPECT TO NEW YORK OVER BRAGG’S POLICIES

The Maricopa County attorney in Arizona said she would fight to keep a man who
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Rachel Mitchell, a Republican, said her Democratic counterpart in New York,
Alvin L. Bragg, was too lenient. Credit...Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press


By Chelsia Rose Marcius

Feb. 21, 2024Updated 7:22 p.m. ET

On Feb. 8, a woman was found dead in a Manhattan hotel room, bludgeoned to death
with an iron.

This week, the police announced that a 26-year-old man suspected of committing
the crime had been arrested in Arizona, where he was accused of stabbing another
woman a few days after the homicide in New York. A Manhattan prosecutor flew to
Arizona to discuss bringing the man back to face charges.

In most homicide cases across the country, it would be a routine extradition.
But on Wednesday, an Arizona prosecutor refused, saying she did not believe
Alvin L. Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, could be trusted to keep him
behind bars.

Rachel Mitchell, the Maricopa County attorney, said at a news conference on
Wednesday that her team would not work with Mr. Bragg, whose office is seeking
to charge the man, Raad Almansoori, in the killing of 38-year-old Denisse
Oleas-Arancibia.

“Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the
Manhattan D.A. there, Alvin Bragg,” Ms. Mitchell told reporters, “I think it’s
safer to keep him here and keep him in custody, so that he cannot be out doing
this to individuals either in our state, county, or anywhere in the United
States.”



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With that statement, which a spokeswoman later tried to temper, a local New York
City story was swept into a national debate over politics and crime, a cyclone
fanned by Mr. Bragg’s prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump on charges
that he orchestrated the cover-up of a hush-money payment to a porn star in an
attempt to conceal her story of an affair before the 2016 election.

Both prosecutors have national profiles: Ms. Mitchell, a Republican, was tapped
in 2018 to play a key role in the Senate confirmation hearings of one of Mr.
Trump’s Supreme Court nominees. Mr. Bragg, a Democrat, has been a lightning rod
for complaints by Mr. Trump and his supporters that he is being persecuted as he
seeks another term in the White House.

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A correction was made on 
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An earlier version of this article misidentified Rachel Mitchell. She is the
Maricopa County attorney, not the district attorney of Maricopa County.

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A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 22, 2024, Section A, Page 1
of the New York edition with the headline: Arizona Denies An Extradition To
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