Arrest of Jose Delacruz

The U.S. Marshals First State Fugitive Task Force arrested Jose Delacruz, 21 years old, at 11:30 am on March 27, 2007. Delacruz was wanted on one count of Murder from the Roxbury District Court, Boston, Massachusetts. The murder occurred in the early morning hours of February 8, 2007 in the Roxbury section of Boston. Since December 21, 2006, Delacruz had been on Level 4 Supervision from Delaware Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole for a November, 2004 conviction in New Castle County for Conspiracy and Maintaining a Vehicle for Distribution of a Controlled Substance.

Earlier this month, First State Fugitive Task Force Members received information from the New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Fugitive Task Force in Boston, MA that Delacruz may be in the Wilmington, Delaware area. After a brief investigation and surveillance, Delacruz was located at his grandmother’s residence located at 2412 North Market Street, #309, Wilmington by Task Force Officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, Delaware Probation and Parole, New Castle County Police Department, and the Boston Police Department. He was arrested without incident.

Delacruz was immediately transported to the New Castle County Police Department for his arraignment and extradition hearing pending his return to Massachusetts.

U.S. Attorney Colm Connolly and U.S. Marshal David W. Thomas would like to say that this arrest was made in the section of Wilmington known as a Weed and Seed area. Weed and Seed, a community-based strategy sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is an innovative, comprehensive multi-agency approach to law enforcement, crime prevention, and community revitalization.