Cleveland,
OH – On August 14, 2008, The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force
located Eliezer Caraballo in Orange County Jail in Orlando, FL after an
anonymous tipster advised that he was in jail under an alias. Investigators
got on line and plowed through hundreds of photos until they found Caraballo.
Caraballo was using the name Geraldo Ortiz and was arrested on June 20, 2008
by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Caraballo was the subject of a 4-state man
hunt which began January 2008 when he fled Lorain, Ohio via Greyhound en
route to the south. Caraballo was featured on America’s Most Wanted internet
page where tips led investigators to Orlando, FL.
Caraballo was wanted by the Lorain Police
Department, Lorain County Sheriff’s Office and the Elyria Police Department
for Aggravated Robbery, Forgery and Theft. He also has four separate
outstanding warrants for theft, robbery with a deadly weapon, dangerous
ordinance and burglary.
Caraballo is suspected of using a butcher
knife to rob a clerk at the Dollarama Plus Store, 3226 Oberlin Ave., in
Lorain, Ohio the afternoon of January 9, 2008. Caraballo was convicted of
robbery and petty theft in 2002, and he was awaiting trial for charges of
robbery, burglary and obstructing official business when he failed to appear
in Lorain County Common Pleas Court in November 2008.
If anyone have any information in reference to any wanted fugitive, please
contact the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force at
1-866-4WANTED. Reward money is available.
The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force Lorain County Division is
composed of the following federal, state and local agencies: U.S. Marshals
Service, Amherst Police Department, Avon Police Department, Avon Lake Police
Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Elyria Police
Department, Lorain County Sheriff’s Office, Lorain Police Department, North
Ridgeville Police Department, Oberlin Police Department, Sheffield Village
Police Department and Vermilion Police Department. |