TINTED WINDOWS LEAD TO ARREST ON WARRANTS, ID FRAUD

Massachusetts State Police on Tuesday stopped a Dorchester man for overly tinted windows on the car he was driving, but they arrested him because he was using a phony name and was wanted for attempted murder, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced.

State Police assigned to the Medford Barracks stopped JEUDY GARCIA-SUAZO (D.O.B. 2/17/88) shortly before 6:00 p.m. on May 5 as he traveled northbound on Route 93 in his girlfriend’s 2001 Audi A6.

When asked for his driver’s license, the defendant retrieved an expired Rhode Island learner’s permit under the name of OMAR RAMON CRUZ. When asked for his social security number, Garcia-Suazo produced from his wallet a piece of paper on which nine digits were written; he could not recite the numbers without looking at the paper. State Police dispatchers soon told the trooper that the Rhode Island permit had expired and that the operator was on suspended status in Massachusetts for payment defaults. The trooper informed the operator of his Miranda rights and took him into custody.

During the booking process, the trooper learned that the defendant had a revoked driver’s license in Massachusetts under the name of ALFONSO CORDERO. The trooper further learned that, under the name Cordero, the defendant was wanted on a 2008 drug charge in Essex County. Though he denied using that name, the defendant did identify the photograph associated with it as depicting himself.

The defendant’s fingerprints were transmitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which positively identified him as Garcia-Suazo. The trooper soon learned that Garcia-Suazo was wanted under than name and various other aliases for additional Essex warrants charging possession of cocaine and marijuana, disorderly conduct, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, unlawfully carrying a firearm, malicious destruction of property, and armed assault with intent to murder.

“I already beat that,” Garcia-Suazo allegedly said when informed of the latter charge.

Garcia-Suazo was arraigned yesterday on a litany of new charges – including operating after suspension, refusing to identify oneself, false application for a license or learner’s permit, possession of false RMV documents, furnishing a false name to police, identity fraud, and the civil offense of driving with obscured windows and windshield – in Charlestown District Court.

Assistant District Attorney Adam Foss recommended that he be held on $50,000 cash bail. Judge Eleanor Coe Sinnott set bail in that amount and ordered Garcia-Suazo to return to court on May 29 with attorney Thomas McCarthy.

Conley said Suffolk prosecutors were in touch with their Essex County counterparts to ensure that the defendant would answer for all charges he allegedly incurred under his various aliases.

“Time and again, we see defendants change their names and even alter their fingerprints,” Conley said. “Every time, their pasts catch up with them. This suspect is no different.”