NORTH BERGEN AND BEYOND — According to police, a North Bergen man who had been in Hudson County Jail since a West New York arrest last year was recently indicted by a Miami grand jury for first degree murder of a former police captain in Miami.
Rafael Toirac-Aguilera, 33, allegedly shot retired Miami Police Captain Robert Yee in July of 2009, while Yee was operating a golf cart. According to police, Yee later died as a result of gunshot wounds. Police said that in June they arrived to the scene of 1884 NW North River Drive after receiving a 911 call of a man shot multiple times at the marina.
According to Prosecutor Edward DeFazio, Toirac-Aguilera was incarcerated in the Hudson County Jail since last year for robbery charges, when his office was contacted by Miami-Dade Police. His office dismissed the local charges of robbery “in part” so that the man could be transfered to Miami Police.
“He couldn’t be released to the state of Florida until the local charges were disposed,” said DeFazio.
DeFazio said that Toriac-Aquilera had a North Bergen address for “a number of years.” Toirac-Aguilera is currently being held without bail on Miami-Dade County’s Guilford Knight Correction Center.
Published reports have stated that a DNA match led police to the North Bergen man.
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