Good evening. I'm Sheriff Greg Capers,
San Jacinto County Sheriff's Of.
UH with great news.
UH, the suspect is in custody.
I have just left Montgomery
County Jail where he was taken
and he has been magistrated.
He now will be taken to my jail.
And where his new residence wil,
I would like to thank the men
behind me and the women behind .
They're not women here right no,
but they everybody played a ver,
very integral part in the arrest
and capture of this coward.
Everybody behind me.
Has worked tirelessly.
I know that there are several
people out of these 225 plus
officers and at this scene,
not to include the millions of of people,
thanks to the media,
y'all y'all push the message ou.
But we've had calls from Wyomin,
Florida, South Texas, North Tex.
Oklahoma, Maryland.
And those are just a few of
the places we were here.
They were there.
Bottom line is we now have
this man in custody.
He was caught hiding in a
closet underneath some laundry.
They were they effectively made the arrest.
He is uninjured and he is currently being
taken to my facility in Cold Springs.
Thank you. You
tell us how you guys are able to
find him. What clues led you tom
tonight? Well, it was a
multijurisdictional operation to
say the least. Somebody got a t?
DPSCIDUS Marshals, FBI, we had attack team.
They all meandered over there a.
Found that that tip to be true
that that's unknown to me.
Maybe one of these guys behind e
can speak to the actual informan
on on on where how how is actuay
captured. What's your message to the family?
Well they they
can rest easy now because he is behind
bars and he will live out his le
behind bars for killing those f.
We have, we have guys. We have e
for questions afterwards. Sherif
is the ASAC. Is the ASAC.
Hey, good evening. Thank you, Sheriff Capers.
My name is Jimmy Paul.
I'm an assistant special agent charged
with the FBI Houston Division.
Thanks for having me.
So just wanted to say first and
foremost the the victims and thr
families are in the forefront or
minds and we're extremely deligd
that the suspect was captured.
The tip for the suspect's locatn
came in through the FBI's tip l,
and we just want to thank the pn
who had the courage and bravery
to call in the suspect's locati,
Special Agent Paul or Tech Way of Fox News.
Do you know if this individual
will be facing federal charges?
Currently it's an ongoing investigation
and he's being charged by the Sn
Jacinto County Sheriff's Office.
Sir, ongoing investigation.
I can't comment on that at this point,
you
guys, we're going to, we're
going to let him get through a
statement in the US Marshals and efforts.
We will take questions. Okay, thank you.
I just wanted to thank the person who
had the courage to call on the .
And also I'd like to thank the
many FBI personnel and local law
enforcement agencies who work nonstop
to bring this person to justice,
to bring a sense of justice to
the victims and also a sense of
security to the community of the
San Jacinto County community.
I mean, this is basically what we do.
You know, we show up,
we bring the adequate resources.
And then we don't, we don't let.
We always said it's not a matter of if,
but a matter of when the
suspects will be caught.
And we're extremely glad
that today was the win.
At this time,
I'd like to turn it over to theS
Marshall Service representative.
Good evening.
My name is Joe Ruiza Chavez.
I'm a supervisory deputy, US Marshall.
I oversee the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders
and Fugitive Task Force here in Houston, TX.
First, I want to say that this s
an atrocious crime that devastad
this community and this country.
We received a call for request m
Sheriff Capers and we brought expertise
and fugitive investigations and personnel
to assist in this investigation.
The Marshall Service is the oldt
federal law enforcement agency and we
have an expertise in hunting fugitives.
This is a.
Very sad time for the the victis
and I hope that this will bringm
some comfort and they could gri.
Thank you. We'll
open up for questions now.
So can you tell us if recapping
for you real quick while this is still in
progress, want to bring you the latest
Francisco or Pesa in custody tonight,
set to be transferred to San Jacinto.
From the Montgomery County jail hearing
from the San Francisco sheriff,
he says Orapeza was caught
hiding in a closet amid laundry.
The tip, by the way,
came in from the FBI tip line.
A reminder there was a $100,000
reward on the line.
Yeah, we have multiple crews
working this story tonight from
the jail to where Orapeza was
captured and Governor Greg Abbos
reaction to news of this arrest.
All of that coming up in just
a few minutes on KHOU 11 News.
At 10 and we're streaming
the news conference right now
online. We'll see
you on air at 10
about Topeza is the only medicie
that treats Ted at the source
not just the symptoms in a
clinical study more than 80. Yes
Sir. We actually filed charges on him in
2022 and it to the best of my knowledge
they we got a warrant for him a.
The the constable went to serve
him in another county because
he he left here and never could
make contact with the subject.
And then a few days later the
victim went to the district
Attorney's office in our countyd
filed A nonprosecution statemen.
Sorry to belabor this point, bue
address where this arrest took place have
court documents that show.
It traces back to what of
an Ant of what I believe.
Is that still the case that this
would be a home of a family memr
Can anybody confirm them? I can.
I mean is the it's really it's l
ongoing the investigation part.
I wasn't part of the arrest tea.
Do we have any idea
how he got from the place that
the shooting happened to cut.
To use a vehicle that he walked.
You guys have
any idea? Once again, not not tt
I know of. I have no knowledge.
Multiple agencies. Was DHS also involved?
Was BORTAC the agency who actuay
went in and made the apprehensin
they were part of that team,
I do believe, Yes ma'am. And
now with the the wife,
the surviving wife that's
still living at that home,
she is currently an ICE fugitiv.
Is anything happening with her?
Is she being? Investigated.
Are there follow-ups happening with her?
I've understood from deputies
that she has been cooperating
and to my knowledge she is
still there because they the
officers are still there.
I have no direct knowledge
because this is just all happend
within the last couple of hours,
but she is still there.
You guys believe
that large reward that
was put out? Is that what
you know made that person calling this
tip and will that money be goino
the person you called in that t?
The money will be going to the
the person that called in the
tip through the proper channels.
Yes, ma'am. I'm not.
I'm thinking it's still 80,000.
We know that he's been in this
country since 2016 illegally,
meaning our peso. The question ,
and he had an AR15 rifle that hs
shooting the night of this inci.
Have you ever been been able
to connect the dots as to how?
An illegal alien was able to
purchase on to get that AR50 we.
Well, I could just speak to conjecture.
Buy it from somebody else on the street.
Are you conducting
an investigation to try to
connect those dots? Yes, Sir,
we are that that is an ongoing
investigation as well.
When did you learn about the the that
the suspect was at this address
and when the job actually go?
Wait, what was the time,
the specific time? For
tonight's arrest? Well,
yeah. When did you first learn t
he was there? And then when
did you actually go in?
We we would probably need to
defer that to the FBI or the US
Marshals. We received the tip at 5:15. Sorry.
But we received the tip at 5:15 PM and
the arrest was made at 6:30 PM.n
an even participating agency dis
how surprised you ended up findg
15 miles away or less where this
privacy?
I can't really speak on that.
I can just tell you that we're
just extremely happy that the
the citizen had the courage and
the bravery to call in that tip.
Had you guys searched
it. I'm not sure it was searched before,
but we we immediately
dispatched the team out there.
As soon as we got the tip,
we're going to take three more questions.
Were those areas searched
specifically as well?
I know he's been talking about family.
We're obviously hearing that
this was a family's home,
that this person was found.
So were other family
homes. As far as we know,
this is our one time random tip,
but we've contacted multiple houses and
families throughout the the area. What
does contact mean? Have you gon?
Did you search these homes? Rig,
We have laundry piles and other families.
We've done not. We've done
knockin talks with with multiple
homes throughout the area and
we've gotten consent from the
homeowners to go in and take a .
So we've done done those
kind of actions. Yeah.
Two more questions.
No ma'am. Nobody else is in
custody of the night and
I'm assuming that they are still
at the house questioning the the
people that were at the house
where the suspect was arrested.
Heard you know in his quest
kind of evade law enforcement.
As far as we know, we do not knw
anybody else that was injured. u
can have supporting a formal criminal
charges in private. Should he me
any comment? What was his demear
when he was placed under arrest?
Yes, Sir. Just formal.
Any formal criminal charges fil?
Do you know what those are yet?
Murder 5 counts. 5
counts of murder $5 million bond
not capital. Murder 5,000,000.
No Sir. Thank you very much.
Not at this time. There is a vio
in social media is correct persn
say it one more time, there is a video in
social media. Is that correct v.
I haven't, I haven't had time
to to visit social media.
Thank you very much everyone.
I'm going to clarify.
Thank you very much everyone.
Thank you guys very much guys. m
going to clarify some of the
spellings and and answer some
of the roundup questions here.
I know that there are questionsy
quickly about the speakers that.
Just we're up here again,
San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers,
FBI Assistant Special Agent
in Charge Jimmy Paul Paul,
as well as Supervisory Deputy
US Marshal Joe Ruiz, de Chavez,
Ruiz, Space DE Space
Chavez. Now, I know that there
are a few questions outstanding.
Were there any others that were left out?
You're talking to the initial shooting,
so that is still under investigation.
That's part of the ongoing,
that's part of the ongoing
investigation into this.
But the sheriff will be releasig
something later, I believe.
But at this point in time,
that's part of the ongoing investigation.
I'm sorry, say that
again. Was the murder weapon
in this case recovered?
Do you guys have the actual
gun that they believe?
At this point in time that
this is very fresh, right?
We just got them into custody.
This is ongoing.
So a lot of the questions you guys had,
they're great questions,
but it's ongoing.
Yes, I would actually like to clarify,
someone asked about BORTAC.
So I would like to clarify this obviously
was a lot of different agencies helping
out San Jacinto Sheriff's Office were
the lead agency FBI assisted the three
agencies that went into that ho.
For the United States Marshals Service,
Texas DPS, as well as the United
States Border Patrol Bortec Tea,
those 3 elite agencies were the ones who
brought this fugitive into into custody.
It's a shortening of of I beliee
Border Patrol Tactical Team,
but Bortec BORTAC.
But please check with their web.
Border Patrol DPS and Marshals, yeah.
Texas DPS
Rangers are part of DPS, so
I'm unsure of that. And that's
probably the last question I'm
going to take tonight. Guys, ag,
thank you all so much for coming out.
I'll be over here for a while,
but thank you very much.