Two fugitive brothers’ plans to flee the country were dashed early yesterday as U.S. marshals arrested them for allegedly executing three college students in a Newark schoolyard two weeks ago.
The feds caught up with Rodolfo Godinez, 25, at about 1 a.m. in a small apartment in Oxon Hill, Md., U.S. Marshal James Plousis said.
Godinez, a legal resident from Nicaragua whose record includes arrests for assault and robbery, surrendered with “no struggle,” Plousis said.
He was being on $1 million bail and charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder, Essex County prosecutors said.
About an hour later, authorities nabbed Godinez’s old half-brother, 16, whose name is being withheld because of his age, in Woodbridge, Va. They’d been planning to “go to Texas, then flee to Mexico,” Plousis said.
The brothers join illegal immigrant José Carranza, 28, and two teens already in custody. They are accused of the Aug. 4 slaying of Terrance Aeriel, 18, Dashon Harvey, 20, and Iofemi Hightower, 20.
Authorities said at least one suspect was still at large.