Man Wanted in His Father’s Death in Ohio Is Arrested by Maryland Police Following a Chase

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Maryland police caught, following a quick automobile chase, a motorist accused within the stabbing dying of his father in Ohio a number of hours earlier than, authorities mentioned.

Jose Daniel Aguilera Cespedes, 25, was arrested late Saturday afternoon in Frederick County, in keeping with a Maryland State Police information launch. Police situated him touring eastbound on Interstate 70 in Washington County after the Fulton County (Ohio) Sheriff’s Workplace alerted troopers that the driving force of a Honda sedan had excellent arrest warrants.

Police in Wauseon, Ohio, mentioned they had been known as to a house Saturday morning the place they discovered Edwin Aguilera, 64, useless from a number of stab wounds. A girl additionally was injured and brought to a hospital in Toledo, Wauseon Police Chief Kevin Chittenden mentioned. An arrest warrant charging Aguilera’s son with homicide and felonious assault was issued, the chief mentioned in a separate information launch.

Troopers situated the sedan on I-70 and tried to make a visitors cease. The sedan pushed by Cespedes struck a Hagerstown police car, adopted by a pursuit for an additional 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) earlier than heavy visitors introduced the suspect’s automobile to a cease, resulting in the arrest, Maryland police mentioned.

Maryland police mentioned Cespedes additionally was charged with first- and second-degree assault and visitors violations associated to the pursuit. The state police communications workplace mentioned in a e-mail that Cespedes remained Sunday within the Frederick County detention heart and did not have lawyer contact data for him.

Chittenden mentioned that safety at M&T Financial institution Stadium in Baltimore additionally assisted with the case, however he did not present particulars.

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