{"id":169580,"date":"2026-03-20T20:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169580\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:18:07","slug":"fugitive-wanted-for-murder-in-new-york-arrested-in-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169580\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive wanted for murder in New York arrested in CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested a man in Norwich on Friday who was wanted on a murder charge in New York \u2014 marking the second person wanted in the same shooting to be apprehended by local police.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Caballero, 19, of St. Augustine, Florida was taken into custody following a \u201clarge-scale arrest operation\u201d at 9 Clairmont Ave. which involved multiple agencies, according to Lt. Kyle Besse of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwichct.gov\/255\/Police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norwich Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Besse said the New York City Police Department holds a warrant for Caballero charging him with second-degree murder in connection with a shooting in the Bronx, New York on Feb. 11. He was charged as a fugitive from justice and with interfering with an officer.<\/p>\n<p>Caballero was held in lieu of a $1 million bond and was set to face a judge. His extradition to New York is pending.<\/p>\n<p>According to Besse, authorities found that Caballero was in Norwich after police came into contact with 19-year-old Zion Martinez on March 4, just before 12:20 p.m., and learned that he was wanted by police in New York on a second-degree murder charge tied to the Bronx shooting. The NYPD also had a second warrant out for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/2026\/03\/20\/fugitive-wanted-for-murder-in-new-york-arrested-in-ct-following-large-scale-operation\/martinez-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9073893 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Zion Martinez is wanted in connection with a murder charge tied to a shooting in the Bronx, New York. (Norwich Police Department)\" width=\"291\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Martinez.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9073893\" \/><\/a>Zion Martinez is wanted in connection with a murder charge tied to a shooting in the Bronx, New York. (Norwich Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>Norwich police charged Martinez with fugitive from justice, interfering with police and possession of a controlled substance. He remains held on $550,000 bond pending extradition.<\/p>\n<p>Following the arrest, detectives in New York informed Norwich investigators that Martinez was likely with Caballero and that they were each wanted in connection with the same shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities then set up the operation that led to Caballero\u2019s apprehension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrested a man in Norwich on Friday who was wanted on a murder charge in New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,28776,28775,17382,28777,267,39356,259,9,24,55,54,12736,69481,56],"class_list":["post-169580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arrest","tag-connecticut-news","tag-ct-news","tag-fugitive","tag-hartford-courant","tag-local-news","tag-max-image-preview","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-norwich","tag-norwich-police-department","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}