The arrest warrants were result of a joint investigation between Massachusetts and Connecticut investigators.
SPRINGFIELD – A 39-year-old man, wanted for a murder that investigators say occurred in Springfield in January 2010, was arrested Wednesday in Bloomfield, Conn.
The U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force took Demery Williams, of Hampden, Conn., into custody Wednesday in New Haven and turned him over the Bloomfield Police Department where he was arrested as a fugitive from justice, according to a press release issued by Bloomfield police.
Bloomfield police said that Williams’ arrest follows the discovery of 36-year-old William Jones of Hartford dead inside an abandoned car in that town on Jan. 23, 2010. Police said they believe the homicide occurred in Springfield.
Williams is slated to be arraigned in Hartford Superior Court on Thursday, pending extradition by Massachusetts authorities.
A warrant against Williams and a second suspect for murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, was issued on July 22 out of Springfield District Court.
The arrest warrant for the second suspect, Curtis Coombs, 34, of Hartford, has been lodged in the Cheshire (Conn.) Correction Institute in Storrs, Conn. where he is serving a sentence stemming from a probation violation in March 2010 upon an October 2007 conviction for burglary, 1st degree.
Jones, formerly of Bloomfield, was reported missing from Hartford and Bloomfield police, acting on information that he may be driving a white Saturn SUV in that town, found him dead inside that vehicle in a retail parking lot.
On scene indications suggested foul play, and a subsequent autopsy by the Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.
Upon the completion of rendition proceedings, both Williams and Coombs will be arraigned in Springfield District Court, Hampden District Attorney Mark G. Mastroianni said.