Woodbury police arrest homicide suspect after stolen vehicle alert
A stolen-vehicle alert in Woodbury led police to Amaury Rosado-Laboy, a Pennsylvania homicide suspect, and ended in a felony stop without incident.
Woodbury Town Police arrested Amaury Rosado-Laboy, 43, of Pennsylvania, after a stolen vehicle alert tied him to a homicide case and led officers to make a felony stop in the Town of Woodbury on Saturday, July 11. He was taken into custody without incident and was being held in the Orange County Jail as a fugitive from justice while awaiting extradition.
Police identified the vehicle with help from stationary license plate readers and communications support, then moved quickly with help from Village Police in Harriman, Village Police in Monroe and New York State Police. The arrest put a small town department with 21 full-time officers and 2 part-time officers at the center of an interstate manhunt moving through Orange County’s highway corridors.
The Pennsylvania case behind the stop involved a shooting in Reading in the early morning hours of Friday, July 10. Police said the violence unfolded around 2:07 a.m. in the 500 block of Lancaster Avenue after a suspect forcibly entered a residence and shot two adult men. Alex B. Rosado-Laboy, 45, of Reading, was pronounced dead at the scene, and a second victim, a 57-year-old Reading man, suffered serious injuries.
Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams said on July 13 that authorities were still waiting to see whether Rosado-Laboy would fight extradition to Pennsylvania. Reporting also said Rosado-Laboy had no permanent address, a detail that underscored the mobility of a suspect police were trying to stop before he could move farther through the region.
For Woodbury, the arrest showed how fast a routine alert can become a high-risk stop in a commuter town that sits astride major travel routes. License-plate readers are now a standard law-enforcement tool for spotting stolen or wanted vehicles in real time, but their use has also fueled privacy and civil-liberties concerns. In this case, the technology and the multiagency response brought a homicide suspect out of the traffic flow and into custody before he could disappear again.
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