• One of New York's most-wanted fugitives found living in small English town

    Interpol

    Sean Lopes, 47, was arrested in Chatham, England, on Monday.

    By John Newland, Staff Writer, NBC News

    A fugitive wanted in New York after vanishing in the wake of a 2004 hostage taking has been arrested in England, where he had been working in a supermarket.

    Sean Lopes, 47, had been living in Chatham, about 30 miles southeast of London, when he was arrested Monday, Kent Police said in a statement.

    He was "wanted on charges of attempted murder and kidnapping in the United States" involving a 22-year-old woman dating June 2004, according to Kent Police.

    Kent Police said Lopes was charged in the U.S. with the offense but went missing after being released on bail. He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison in May 2005.

    A 2012 news release from U.S. authorities said Lopes entered the home of an ex-girlfriend -- both were employed by New York City public schools -- and waited for her to come home. When she did, he confronted her with a gun and a knife and held her hostage until police were able to get into the apartment and free her, according to a 2012 statement from the U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago, where Lopes was mistakenly thought to have been living.

    Lopes was believed to have fled to the island nation using his brother's travel documents, the embassy said.

    Lopes had been working at a Sainsbury's grocery store in Gravesend, Kent, the company said Thursday. 

    “We can confirm that a member of staff from our Pepper Hill store was arrested on Monday," a Sainsbury's spokeswoman said. "We are helping the police with their investigations but are unable to comment further.”

    He had been listed as one of the NYPD's 10 most-wanted suspects.

    Kent Police said a resident of the area raised concerns about Lopes to police, who launched an investigation that included investigators from New York and London. He was then tracked down and arrested.

    Lopes appeared in a London court on Tuesday and was ordered to be detained as extradition proceedings got under way, Kent Police said.

    According to Interpol, Lopes is a native of Guyana. The U.S. Embassy said he also had ties to Canada, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic.

    This story was originally published on Thu May 9, 2013 7:04 AM EDT

  • Boeing 767's landing gear door falls into neighborhood near Seattle

    Leah Dermody / AP

    In this photo provided by Leah Dermody, a piece of metal that appears to be a landing gear door from an airplane is shown after it fell to the ground in Kent, Wash., outside Seattle.

    By NBC News

    The landing gear door of a Boeing 767 fell from the sky and narrowly missed a car parked a couple of feet away in Kent, Wash., NBC station KING 5 of Seattle reported.


    Roughly the size of a refrigerator door, the Boeing part is made of carbon fiber, Federal Aviation Administration officials told KING. Bits of carbon fiber remained embedded deep in the pavement of Southeast 231st Way, about 15 miles east of Seattle, after FAA officials toted the part away as part of an investigation, KING reported.

    Neighbors rushed outside Friday as soon as they heard it hit the ground.

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    Witnesses told The Associated Press the panel hit the ground and skipped about 30 feet before stopping in a street Friday morning. Several pieces broke off.

    Leah Dermody, who photographed the door, told KING that some of her neighbors claimed to have heard a plane pass very low over the neighborhood just before the part dropped.

    Residents said the fact no one was hit is pure luck.

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    Neighbor John Hansen told KING he would hold on to a piece of the plane.

    "A souvenir.  Keep it and see how lucky I was," he said. "It's gotta be a one in a million shot."