One of 'Ecuador's most wanted' arrested in Connecticut on murder charges

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News on Jun 19, 2025

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An Ecuadorian man wanted for a 2011 murder in the South American nation has been arrested in Connecticut, authorities said Wednesday.

Richard Cabrera, aka Ricardo Dionicio Cabrera-Erreyes, 50, was nabbed Tuesday in Oxford, the U.S. Marshals said in a press release. He was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice.

Cabrera is accused of stabbing a woman to death on Nov. 24, 2011, in Lujo, Ecuador, about 3,000 miles south of the Connecticut town where he was captured. He faces a charge of femicide in his home country.

Recent cooperation between Ecuadorian authorities and the U.S. Marshals led to his arrest, according to the Marshals. He’d been living in the U.S. under an assumed identity, authorities said.

In the U.S., Cabrera was charged with being in the country illegally and transferred into Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody. He is expected to be deported back to Ecuador.

A 2022 “most wanted” presentation from Ecuador’s national police service listed Cabrera among the country’s highest priority fugitives. The Marshals called him one of “Ecuador’s most wanted.”

Femicide, or the killing of a woman or girl specifically because of her gender, is relatively common in Ecuador.

According to the United Nations, 65% of women in Ecuador are victims of some type of physical violence in their lifetimes, and a woman is killed every 26 hours in the nation.

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