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Newark, N.J. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced the arrest of a man wanted in Pennsylvania on murder charges.

On April 10, 2008, CBP officers at Newark Liberty International Airport encountered Floyd Bogle, a 33-year-old citizen of Jamaica, as he appeared for a deferred inspection. Mr. Bogle was ordered to appear for a deferred inspection after entering the U.S. at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo on April 28th, 2007 on a bus after visiting family in Canada for a couple of days.

During routine checks, CBP officers in Buffalo discovered that Mr. Bogle had been charged with domestic violence/simple assault in early April of 2007. Further checks revealed that he was a person of interest in the stabbing death of his father, 62-year-old Kenrick Bogle of Allentown, on April 24, 2007.

Although CBP officers had information that Mr. Bogle was the subject of the ongoing murder investigation in Berks County, Penn.; no charges had yet been filed.

Mr. Bogle’s passport and alien registration card (green card) were detained by CBP officers in Buffalo based on the pending charge for domestic violence which is an offense if convicted that could render a lawful permanent alien removable from the United States. He was issued a deferred inspection notice to appear in Newark, N.J. after the domestic violence charge was scheduled to be adjudicated. At the request of law enforcement authorities, CBP deferred Mr. Bogle’s inspection until enough evidence had been gathered to charge him with the murder of his father.

Approximately one year after the initial inspection in Buffalo, Pennsylvania authorities issued an arrest warrant for Floyd Bogle, charging him with criminal homicide, first-, second-, and third-degree murder, aggravated assault, robbery, theft by unlawful taking, forgery, access device fraud, identity theft, and possessing instruments of crime. During the investigation, authorities learned that Mr. Bogle opened a credit card account in his father's name and then made charges on that card.

The suspect is being detained at a facility in Essex County, N.J., awaiting extradition to Berks County.

"This apprehension demonstrates CBP’s outstanding cooperation with federal, state, and local authorities," said Adele Fasano, Newark CBP Area Director.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.