The NYPD has arrested two suspects in the murder of a NYC businessman found gagged and bound in his apartment. The police department believe that the man was killed in a sex game gone wrong. The man was found tied to his bedposts by electrical wires with his mouth covered in duct tape and there was no forced entry apparent. Read more below.
Two suspects sought in the brutal murder of a businessman found bound and gagged in his apartment have been returned to New York after they were arrested in Florida this weekend.
Cops caught up with Edwin Faulkner, 30, and Juan Carlos Martinez-Herrera, 26, on Thursday, two weeks after the murder of John Laubach.
Laubach, 57, known in the Chelsea neighbourhood for carrying his parrot Bolo on his shoulder, was found tied to a bedpost with an electrical cord.
He was discovered by a female friend with his hands and feet tied together and duct tape over his mouth in what police said may have been a sexual game gone wrong.
Officers found no signs of forced entry in the apartment, which had also been ransacked.
The New York Daily News reported that police were able to catch Faulkner and Martinez-Herrera after monitoring their cell phone activity.
They were arrested on Thursday morning, and extradited to New York over the weekend.
It has been reported that Mr Laubach, who ran his own floral design business, often met young men for sex, and police sources believe Laubach met his killer on the website RentBoy.com, a place where gay men can connect with other men or escorts.
Investigators were last week looking looking for a man who was caught on an ATM camera trying to use Laubach’s bank card after he died.
Both Faulkner and Martinez-Herrera are no strangers to trouble with the law.
Faulkner has several prior arrests, including drug possession and selling fake marijuana, while Martinez-Herrera has a criminal record in Florida.
It has been alleged that the suspects fled with the victim’s laptop and credit cards.
‘He hired them for a little bit of money to take care of him. Somewhere along the line, they decided to kill him and rob him,’ a law-enforcement source told the New York Post.
