The FBI agent who flew to Cuba in November 2018 to pick up Montclair lawyer-turned murder suspect James Ray said the case was big news when the plane landed in Havana.
Special Agent Brandon Lackey testified Wednesday he was struck by the numerous television cameras that greeted him and a team of law enforcement officers when they arrived at the airport on the afternoon of Nov. 6.
Lackey was part of a team of eight U.S. law enforcement officials who went to pick up Ray, who tried to enter Cuba on Oct. 28, six days after he fatally shot Angela Bledsoe, his live-in girlfriend and mother of his child, at their home in Upper Montclair. Essex County had already issued an arrest warrant for Ray and Cuba detained him.