An American man who had been fleeing for about two decades was arrested in Toronto earlier this year, police said.
Patrick Lutts Jr., who faces homicide charges in Orlando, Florida, in relation to a fatal accident, lived openly in Toronto for 21 years without legal status, according to judicial documents cited by the CBS partner News Canadian Corporation).
Toronto police told CBS News that Lutts was arrested in February under the Canadian extradition law. It is scheduled to appear in a court court at the end of this month, according to CBC News.
In November 2023, the Anonymous Council to Crime Stoppers in Florida led the authorities to suspect Lutts to be in Canada, Chrowning the judicial documents informed by CBC News, which was the first to inform its ruling. Lutts was put under surveillance, and the police discovered that he lived in a high -rise apartment building in Toronto.
In the early hours of Christmas Day 1998, Lutts, who was 25 years old, allegedly crashed into a vehicle in Orlando, resulted in the death of two teenagers: Nancy López, 19 and her boyfriend, 18 Yar-Yar-Yar-Yar-Yar-A, reported, citing researchers.
The researchers said the couple was thrown several meters after Lutts, that he had “a strong smell of alcohol that came from her breath” after a drink night, crashed their truck in their vehicle.
Lutts was supposedly involved in another damaged driving accident in Connecticut in 2002, CBC News reported, citing judicial files. It was not submitted for a PLAEA audience in October 2003, as shown by public records, before disappearing until its recent sentence in Toronto, CBC News reported.