Kaitlin Armstrong Captured in Costa Rica

Austin, TX
– The Austin lady accused of killing world class bike owner Anna Moriah
Wilson Could 11 has been captured in Costa Rica.

The U.S. Marshals Workplace of Worldwide
Operations, Homeland Safety Investigations, and the Division of
State Diplomatic Safety Service, working with authorities in Costa
Rica, positioned and arrested Kaitlin Marie Armstrong June 29 at a hostel
on Santa Teresa Seaside in Provincia de Puntarenas.

Armstrong, 34, shall be deported and returned to
the U.S.

Members of the U.S. Marshals-led Lone Star
Fugitive Job Power and Homeland Safety Investigations not too long ago
found that Armstrong, utilizing a fraudulent passport, had boarded
United Airways Flight 1222 from Newark Worldwide Airport at 5:09
p.m. EST on Could 18 and arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, at 8:27 p.m.
EST.

“The Marshals Service elevated the Kaitlin
Armstrong investigation to main case standing early on this
investigation, which possible performed a key function in her seize after a
43-day run,” mentioned U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Texas Susan
Pamerleau. “That is an instance of mixing the assets of native,
state, federal and worldwide authorities to apprehend a violent
fugitive, convey an finish to that run and hopefully a way of closure to
the sufferer’s household.”

The U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Job Power
positioned Armstrong’s black Jeep Grand Cherokee final week and discovered that
Armstrong offered the car Could 13 to a CarMax dealership in south Austin
for $12,200 {dollars}. Armstrong was offered a examine from the dealership
a day after being questioned by Austin authorities. She departed the
Austin airport on Could 14.

Investigators discovered that Armstrong was dropped
off on the Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport on Could 18, a day after
Austin police issued a murder warrant for her arrest.

She is suspected of the Could 11 homicide of Anna
Moriah Wilson.

Police responding to a name at an east Austin
residence Could 11 found Wilson bleeding and unconscious from
a number of gunshot wounds. They carried out CPR on her, however she was
pronounced lifeless on the scene. Wilson, 25, a Vermont native and world
class bike owner, had been in Austin for a race.

The Austin Police
Division requested help from the Lone Star Fugitive Job Power –
Austin Division to find and apprehend Armstrong. On Could 17 Austin
police issued a murder warrant for Armstrong.

Through the investigation it was discovered by
an interviewed supply that Armstrong was offered transportation to the
Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport on Could 18. Investigators searched
outbound flights on the Newark Airport and located no flight reservations
below her title.

On Could 25 investigators obtained an arrest
warrant within the U.S. District Court docket within the Western District of Texas for
an Illegal Flight to Keep away from Prosecution.

Investigators imagine Armstrong was on the Austin
Bergstrom Worldwide Airport on Could 14 at roughly 12:30 p.m.,
and that she boarded Southwest Airways Flight WN2262 from ABIA to
Houston Passion Airport, the place she boarded a connecting SW Flight WN30 to
New York LaGuardia Airport.

Media wishing to rearrange an interview on this
case are to contact Deputy U.S. Marshal Brandon Filla at
Brandon.Filla@usdoj.gov.

Members of the Lone Star Fugitive Job Power in Austin:

• Austin Police Division-Tactical
  Intelligence Unit

• Georgetown and Spherical Rock Police Division’s

• Travis, Caldwell, Hays, Williamson, and
  Bastrop County Sheriff’s Workplace’s

• Texas Legal professional Common’s Workplace

• Texas Division of Prison Justice OIG

• Texas Division of Public Security

• U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement

• U.S. DHS/Homeland Safety Investigations.

Extra details about the U.S. Marshals Service could be discovered
at http://www.usmarshals.gov.

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