Original Blog Entry: 'America's Most Wanted' woman caught after 15 years on lam

truesee — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:24:46 GMT

'America's Most Wanted' woman nabbed in Bronx on lam for 15 years

John Lauinger, Kevin Deutsch and Barry Paddock

DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Originally Published:Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 8:51 AM

Updated: Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 8:51 AM

Patty Carrion

in the Bronx over the weekend for assault was one of America's Most Wanted, on the lam for 15 years over an attempted murder.

Police responded to a call of an assault in progress Saturday afternoon and found the woman attacking a 30-year-old man with a blunt object near the corner of Sheridan Ave. and E.169th St., police said.

They arrested the woman, who gave her name as Yesima Hernandez, and through fingerprinting identified her as Patty Carrion, 40, wanted for attempted murder and weapons charges, a police source said.

Carrion shot a 20-year-old man point-blank in the chest and continued firing as he tried to get away, hitting him four times, on Sept. 20, 1995, in Meriden, Conn., police say. The victim survived.

Cops in Connecticut found a .32- caliber gun and 82 packets of cocaine in the trunk of a vehicle where the shooter ditched the weapon. Carrion went on to elude the police for a decade and a half.

She has been living for the past six years in a rundown brick apartment building onthe Grand Concourse with a boyfriend,twin daughters and another smallchild, neighbors said.

She hardly kept a low profile, said neighbors, who knew her as Jocelyn and were in the dark about her violent past.

She's been a troublemaker the whole time she's lived here, said the building's super, who declined to give his name.

The super said Carrion threatened his wife when he wasn't immediately available to make a repair.

She's an angry lady, said neighbor Alex Encarnacion, 37. A lot of people were afraid of her. I didn't know she tried to kill someone, but that doesn't surprise me. She had a very bad attitude.

Carrion may have disguised her appearance with wigs and makeup and by dressing as an old lady or a young boy, according to true-crime television show America's Most Wanted, which has aired a story on her.

Carrion was arraigned yesterday in Bronx Criminal Court and remanded to Rikers Island.

The man Carrion was attacking Saturday, who may have been her boyfriend, has refused to cooperate with cops, and the assault charges may be dropped, a police source said. But she will soon face a hearing at which authorities will seek to move her to Connecticut to face charges.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/24/2010-08-24_most_wanted_woman_is_nabbed_in_attack_on_man.html#ixzz0xX7KY13q

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