NYPD detectives are closer to making an arrest in the
January killing of Brooklyn real estate developer Menachem Stark, Commissioner
William Bratton said Monday.
"That case is still moving forward very actively,"
Bratton told reporters in an impromptu news conference. "We are very
comfortable that it will be resolved."
Bratton, who said he gets frequent briefings on the case,
didn't elaborate on the progress investigators were making. But a law
enforcement source who didn't want to be identified said that detectives have
compiled a circumstantial case against at least one person but are waiting for
more information before making an arrest.
The 39-year-old Stark, was abducted outside his Williamsburg
office on Jan. 2 during a snowstorm by at least two people. His partly burned body
was found the next day in a large trash bin at a service station on Cutter Mill
Road in Great Neck. Family friends said Stark was suffocated.
A key piece of evidence in the case was the discovery by
police in Brooklyn of the white van Stark was forced into the night of the
kidnapping. Investigators found traces of his blood and DNA in the van, the
source said.
The investigation is painstaking in that detectives have had
to analyze telephone records of people who used the van around the time of the
abduction, although the owner of the van isn't a suspect, the source said.
Some of Stark's friends in the Hasidic community where he
was active have grown impatient with the pace of the investigation.
"It is good that life goes on but it is troubling that
there is no news," said Isaac Abraham, a family friend and activist in the
community.
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