Aug 27, 2008 11:33 pm US/Eastern
Police Arrest Suspected Hollywood Cabbie Murderer
Four Cab Drivers Have Been Killed In South Florida In The Past Six Months
HOLLYWOOD (CBS4) ―
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Charvon Warren is wanted by police in the connection with the murder of a cab driver in Hollywood.
Hollywood Police Dept./CBS
Hours after police named a suspect in the case of a cab driver who was murdered in Hollywood earlier this month, officers made an arrest in a Ft. Lauderdale neighborhood.
Fort Lauderdale Police spokeswoman Katherine Collins says it all started when a veteran officer with the fugitive warrant squad, Chuck Morrow, spotted the man just blocks away from an apartment complex in the 2800 block of Northwest 11TH Street. Morrow says he had been tracking the suspect for days.
They called in BSO's SWAT team to help. The man they were trying to catch was 24-year-old Charvon Jwan Warren, in connection with the death of 62 year old Rosario Esposito.
BSO SWAT team officials said they set up a perimeter and they made contact with Warren, who was inside apartment number 3 at 2851 NW 11th Street.
Grant indicated to police he was coming out. A
CBS4 News crew arrived just as officers took Warren from the apartment in handcuffs, placed him in a police car and then took him Ft. Lauderdale PD. No violence or shots fired were reported in the process of the arrest.
The victim, Esposito, was killed in the early morning hours of August 8th when he went to pick up a fare near Madison Street and Pembroke Road. Witnesses told police just before 5 a.m. Esposito was dispatched to the Mid-Way Food Store in Hollywood.
Police say Warren and a second man got in his cab. Moments later, three gun shots were heard and Esposito was found dead, leaning out of the window of his cab, a gunshot wound to his head. Police have not identified the second man.
CBS4 was told that Esposito, who was from Italy, had worked for Friendly Checker Cab for about three years.
"You really have to be careful who you pick up," said cab driver Mohammad Khan, when he learned of Esposito's murder. "You cannot refuse the fare. And once you get the fare, sometimes you feel very scared and you can't get them out of your cab and once help has arrived, it's already too late."
Warren, who has lived in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Lauderhill, is considered armed and dangerous. He has a police record which includes battery, auto theft, robbery with a firearm and assault with a weapon.
Esposito is the fifth South Florida cab driver to be murdered since the beginning of the year.
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