Two men from the Dominican Republic who were wanted in the stabbing of an off-duty New York Police Department detective were arrested Tuesday in Lynn, Massachusetts, after investigators tracked them from New York, federal authorities said.
The U.S. Marshals Service identified the men as D’Angelo Caraballo and Sneider Mejia. Both are wanted in connection with the attempted murder of the detective, who was attacked Friday afternoon in the Bronx, according to the Marshals Service, as reported by WWLP-22News in Springfield.
The Department of Homeland Security said both men are Dominican nationals who were in the United States without legal status, that each had prior arrests in New York, and that an immigration judge ordered one of them removed from the country in May 2025. DHS did not say which of the two men was under that order, and the agency’s account of their immigration histories could not be independently verified Wednesday.
The U.S. Marshals Service, Massachusetts State Police and Lynn police made the arrests, not U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Neither the Marshals’ announcement nor the DHS statement, as reported, said whether ICE had placed an immigration detainer on either man.
The stabbing happened around 1:40 p.m. Friday near East 206th Street and Rochambeau Avenue in the Bronx’s Norwood neighborhood, police said, according to reporting by The National News Desk. Two people on e-bikes approached the detective, and he was stabbed or slashed several times in the neck and leg, law enforcement sources told the New York Post. The attackers rode off on the e-bikes.
DHS said the men confronted the detective and demanded his property before the attack.
The detective, who has not been publicly identified, is assigned to the 44th Precinct and joined the department in July 2016. Jacobi Medical Center took him in stable condition. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch went to the hospital, and the NYPD canceled a crime-statistics news conference scheduled for that afternoon. DHS said Wednesday that he is recovering.
The case went to the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, which learned the two men had left the New York area together, the Marshals Service said. Investigators traced them to Massachusetts, where the Marshals’ District of Massachusetts office, State Police and Lynn police carried out what authorities described as a targeted operation. Both men were taken into custody without incident.
U.S. Marshal Ricky J. Patel of the Southern District of New York said people who attack police have “nowhere they can hide,” and credited his deputies and the task force with following the pair across state lines without further violence. Dennis Matulewicz, who leads the Marshals Service in Massachusetts, called the attempted killing of the detective an attack on all of law enforcement and said the two men would now face justice.
Massachusetts State Police are holding Caraballo and Mejia pending extradition to New York. Authorities have not released their ages, the specific charges they will face in New York, or whether they have lawyers. Both are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
The arrests took place in a city north of Boston that is home to one of the region’s largest Dominican communities.
DHS did not explain how a man under a final removal order since May 2025 remained in New York, or what his earlier New York arrests involved. Those questions, along with the formal charges, are expected to surface as the case moves to a Bronx courtroom.
Sources: U.S. Marshals Service, Southern District of New York and District of Massachusetts (announcement Oct. 7, 2026), as reported by WWLP-22News (Ashley Shook); U.S. Department of Homeland Security statement, as reported by WWLP-22News; The National News Desk (Oct. 2, 2026), citing NYPD and law enforcement sources quoted by the New York Post.
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