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Cops say Abdul-Aleem shot a man in 2006.

On Sunday August 6, 2006, in the midst of a heat wave in New York City, cops say Yahya Abdul-Aleem committed murder in broad daylight. Police believe Abdul-Aleem became hot and bothered after an argument and shot Stanley Pierre as he sat in his car. Stanley was shot several times including a fatal blow to the head. 

Stanley left behind a large grieving family, a fiance and an unborn child.

Abdul-Aleem is a known drug trafficker and often travels by train. He has a tattoo on the right side of his neck. 

State Police Surprised To Arrest Alleged Murderer

Sgt. Geoff Petsko had recently been dispatched to a new post in Morgantown, W. Va., after working for the State Police for 14 years. On his first traffic stop in the area, Sgt. Petsko told AMW that he'd unknowingly picked up an alleged murderer wanted for more than two years.

It was Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008, at around 1 p.m., when Sgt. Petsko says he pulled over a vehicle for speeding in what he thought would be a routine traffic stop. After the driver couldn't produce a valid driver's license or any form of identification, he was brought in to custody.

Sgt. Petsko says in his time on the force, he'd gotten matches back from fingerprints for people wanted for burglary or drugs, but never on charges of murder.

Sgt. Petsko believes it was pure luck that the man he had arrested was Yahya Abdul-Aleem.

Abdul-Aleem wasn't initially told that he'd been positively ID'd, so the NYPD would have time to travel to West Virginia to question him about the 2006 murder and his time on the run.  Sgt. Petsko believes Abdul-Aleem had been in the area for some time and knew the roads well.

AMW tipsters alerted U.S. Marshals that Abdul-Aleem was staying in West Virginia, but as they were preparing to act on the lead, Sgt. Petsko got to him first.