A man wanted for capital murder in Texas was
apprehended early Thursday, June 16, by Loudoun County Sheriff's deputies in a Sterling home.
Noe De Jesus Gonzalez, 21, of Houston, was taken into custody by members of the Sheriff's Emergency Response Team (SERT) and Community Policing units who entered the single-family home in the 1000 block of Ironwood Drive in the Sterling Park community.
Gonzalez is wanted by the Houston Police Department in connection with the March 16 homicide of a Houston man, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office. Authorities in Texas issued a warrant for his arrest in April and believed he fled to the Northern Virginia area, possibly Sterling, where the suspect has ties to a female acquaintance.
During the investigation the Loudoun Sheriff's Office received
information that Gonzalez may be residing in an apartment at another location and in May began conducting surveillance on the home.
Early Thursday morning Community Policing Units learned Gonzalez was in a home along Ironwood Drive. SERT team members entered the residence shortly before 5 a.m. where he was arrested without incident.
Gonzalez is one of two suspects in the March murder of a Houston man who was found wrapped in a blanket inside a mattress that was left leaning against a Dumpster. The victim, Isidro Jimenez Perez, 30, suffered blunt trauma to the head, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The second suspect, Teodoro Velasquez-Anariba, 27, was apprehended in New Orleans and also charged with capital murder and has since been returned to Houston, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Gonzalez is being held without bond at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center awaiting extradition.