Pennsylvania quadruple-murder suspect was hiding out in Lake Alfred, FBI says
Ken Suarez reports
LAKE ALFRED, Fla. - Residents will happily tell you that Lake Alfred is quaint and off the beaten path. It’s a nice quiet little town, city commissioner Charlie Lake offered. We don’t have much crime here.
That’s why the FBI’s arrest of Pedro Sanchez-Laporte was such a shocker.
Investigators say he was involved in the so-called ‘Trinidad Drug Trafficking Organization’ and is accused in a quadruple murder as part of a drug -related turf battle in Reading, Pennsylvania.
After that, he just seemed to disappear.
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Apr 7, 2021 Man Wanted for Killing Four People in Reading Arrested in Florida
(Reading, PA) The man who was wanted for killing four people in Reading three years ago is now behind bars. The FBI announced yesterday that Pedro Sanchez-Laporte was arrested at a home in Lake Alfred, Florida. Sanchez-Laporte is facing several felony charges including criminal homicide for his alleged involvement in a gang-related shooting inside an apartment in the one-hundred block of South Third Street in 2018. Officials say he will be returned to Pennsylvania soon. Governor Mifflin School District Announces Start Dates for Construction Project
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A man wanted in a Berks County quadruple murder was apprehended by FBI agents in Florida after nearly two years on the lam, according to authorities.
An FBI Tampa SWAT team on Tuesday apprehended Pedro Sanchez-Laporte at a home in Lake Alfred, Florida, Michael Driscoll, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division, and Berks County District Attorney John Adams announced.
Sanchez-Laporte was allegedly a member of the Trinidad Drug Trafficking Organization, a violent Berks County drug dealing organization responsible for six murders in six weeks in Reading, including the 2018 quadruple homicide, LehighValleyLive reports.
Despite the fact that ten people were charged in connection with the crimes, Sanchez-Laporte has been on the run since 2019.
Tampa FBI SWAT personnel help capture man wanted in four homicides
Authorities allege that in January 2018, he and other alleged members of a drug-trafficking organization confronted and eventually opened fire on four other people.
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Federal authorities have announced the arrest in Florida of a fugitive wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of four men in an eastern Pennsylvania row house more than three years ago. [ Photo illustration by ASHLEY DYE and LUIS SANTANA | Times ]
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Federal authorities have announced the arrest in Florida of a fugitive wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of four men in an eastern Pennsylvania row house more than three years ago.