Arizona prosecutor refusing to extradite leggings killer puts the boot into Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for letting go migrants in Times Square shooting: 'We can't guarantee he'll stay locked up in New York'

The Arizona prosecutor refusing to send an accused prostitute killer to New York said she is looking out for his victims' families and cannot guarantee the suspect will remain locked up due to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's lax bail policies. 

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has ordered her staff not to extradite Raad Noan Almansoori, 26, to New York where he's wanted for the alleged murder of sex worker Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, 38.

He was arrested in Arizona after police said he stabbed two women - one in a McDonalds and the other while stealing her car.

'We have two very violent crimes here. We have two women that were stabbed and he is facing a lengthy mandatory prison sentence here and even though there is a homicide in New York, we can guarantee that he is going to stay in custody,' Mitchell said on FOX & Friends. 

'I am putting the victims first and making sure that he stays in custody,' she said. 'I don't want this individual getting out and able to victimize more people.'

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell told FOX & Friends she is looking out for the families of the victims by not extraditing accused killer Raad Noan Almansoori, 26, to New York

Bragg held a press conference on Thursday claiming Mitchell was refusing to extradite as a political tool

Raad Almansoori, 26, was arrested by police in Arizona on a separate assault on another woman and is wanted in New York for the alleged murder of sex worker Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, 38

She cited Bragg's 'treatment of violent criminals' as the reason for her decision not to extradite Almansoori.

'And again, this is not casting aspersions on NYPD, but it was just a couple of weeks ago that some of the illegal immigrants that were in New York City who beat up on police officers were let go,' Mitchell said.

'They were flipping the camera off as they walked out of jail, and guess where they ended up? Four of them ended up in Maricopa County, and they had to be taken into custody here.' 

Almansoori is in custody on suspicion of killing Queens sex worker Oleas-Arancibia by strangling her and hitting her over the head in the Soho 54 hotel on February 8. 

Surveillance footage of Almansoori caught after the murder of Oleas-Arancibia shows him wearing her bodysuit along a well-lit Manhattan street.

Almansoori was on bail at the time of the murder for attacking and sexually assaulting another escort in Florida in April 2023. After being arrested on that charge, he later posted his own bail in September of last year.

 While on bail, he allegedly killed Oleas-Arancibia before fleeing cross the country. 

'Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the Manhattan DA there, Alvin Bragg, I think it's safer to keep him here and keep him in custody so that he cannot be out doing this to individuals either in our state, county or anywhere in the United States' Mitchell said, according to NBC News.

'This is not aimed the New York Police Department at all. I know they did a hard job, they did a good job, but we will not be agreeing to extradition,' she added.

'I've instructed my extradition attorneys not to agree to that. We're going to keep him here.'

Bragg held a Thursday press conference claiming Mitchell was refusing to extradite as a political tool.

'Her reasoning? Not because that's what the law dictates, not because that's what advances justice, not because of a concern for victims, not at the request of the NYPD - but rather, plain and simple, old-fashioned grandstanding and politics,' Bragg said. 

Mitchell (pictured) told reporters she's ordered her staff not to cooperate with plans to send  Almansoori back to New York

Mitchell hit back at Bragg's statement about her decision to extradite saying, 'It's great to see the Manhattan DA finally take interest in violent crime'

Bragg refuted her claim that the migrants arrested in Arizona were involved in the attack on police in Times Square

'It is deeply disturbing to me that a member of my profession, a member of law enforcement, would choose to play political games in a murder case.'

He also refuted her claim migrants arrested in Arizona were involved in a separate, high-profile attack on police in Times Square. 

'This has demonstrably been proven to be false, now for weeks, so to repeat a baseless falsehood, now on national TV, is beyond the pale,' Bragg said. 

'The NYPD has said that. My office has said it publicly. Different names, different dates of birth, different fingerprints. Different people. My office has indicted seven people in the despicable and heinous attack on two of New York’s Finest.'

Emily Tuttle, a representative for Bragg, said it's 'deeply disturbing' that Mitchell is 'playing political games in a murder investigation' and described her statement as 'a a slap in the face' to New York law enforcement.

'In Manhattan, we are serious about New Yorker's safety, which is why murders are down 24 percent and shootings are down 38 percent since DA Bragg took office,' a statement released by Tuttle said. 

'New York's murder rate is less than half that of Phoenix, Arizona, because of the hard work of the NYPD and all of our law enforcement partners.

'It is a slap in the face to them and to the victim in our case to refuse to allow us to seek justice and full accountability for a New Yorker's death.'

In a scathing reply to Bragg's office on X, Mitchell hit back. 'It's great to see the Manhattan DA finally take interest in violent crime. My job is to focus on the victims I was elected to protect.'

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that Almansoori had purchased a plane ticket from Florida to New York on January 26.

When staff discovered the body of Denisse Oleas-Arancibia on the morning of February 8, the 38-year-old was lying beneath a blanket and beside a broken iron, having checked in the day before

A surveillance footage image shows the suspect in the grisly slaying of Oleas-Arancibia wearing a bodysuit in Manhattan 

Oleas-Arancibia's death has formally been ruled a homicide (pictured: interior of the room where Oleas-Arancibia was found)

According to Kenny, he then has credit card usage three days later in the Big Apple and visits an escort in Upper Manhattan on February 6.

The body of Oleas-Arancibia was found on the morning of February 8, and four days later, Almansoori is said to have flown back to Arizona from Newark.

Officials in Arizona took him into custody on Sunday after he stabbed a woman in McDonald's after dragging her into the ladies room and holding her against her will.

Police say Almansoori was arrested shortly after he tried to flee in a stolen car and admitted while in custody to an earlier stabbing in Phoenix. In that incident, a woman was stabbed when a man attempted to steal her car at knifepoint.

Almansoori was booked into the Maricopa County jail on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and theft.

He was also charged with robbery, assault, theft and criminal damage in the separate Phoenix investigation. He is being held without bond.