Woman's Death Deemed Homicide After Body Parts Found At Bronx Trash Facility
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A woman whose body parts were found at a Bronx garbage transfer station last week was a homicide victim.
Workers found a human leg, torso and two arms with no hands at the Metropolitan Transfer Station in Hunts Point on Jan. 17.
Somorie Moses, 40, was arrested Sunday after police executed a search warrant at his home in Brooklyn and found the victim's head, hands and feet in a freezer.
Moses — a registered sex offender — was initially arrested on a charge of concealing a human corpse.
Moses has an extensive rap sheet with over eight arrests. He served three years in prison for raping and forcing a girl under the age of 16 into prostitution in 2006.
Police used surveillance cameras and phone records to track him down.
Police classified the woman's death as a homicide on Wednesday. Additional charges are pending.
The woman has not been identified.
It's not clear if Moses has an attorney who could speak for him.
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