Grim ghoul
B’klyn man busted as body parts dumper
A 40-YEAR-OLD sex offender was charged Sunday with tossing a woman’s dismembered remains into the back of a garbage truck that ended up at a Bronx waste transfer station.
Police charged Somorie Moses of Flatbush, Brooklyn, with concealment of a human corpse and tampering with evidence — five days after a bulldozer operator at the Metropolitan Waste Transfer Station in Hunts Point discovered a corpse missing a head, arms and one leg.
Detectives searching through garbage at the site later uncovered two arms — without hands — believed to belong to the victim, officials said.
The remains were “housed in black garbage bags,” according to the criminal complaint, which said Moses threw the bags into the rear of a garbage truck in the vicinity of Burnside and Jerome Aves. in the Bronx on Jan. 17 at about 3:15 a.m.
Cops used surveillance footage from the transfer station and cell phone records to identify Moses, police sources said.
Moses said nothing during a brief appearance in Bronx Supreme Court. He wore blue scrubs and maintained a blank stare.
Justice Linda Poust Lopez ordered he be held without bail.
“He has every reason to flee at this time,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Gray said.
“The defendant attempted to flee outside a rear door. He knocked over a police officer trying to flee.”
Prosecutors expect to charge Moses with more serious crimes once an autopsy is concluded, Gray said. Moses’ attorney, Sidney Thaxter, did not comment on the charges.
Residents of Moses’ building were horrified at the allegations against their neighbor.
“It’s disturbing,” Tyrone Hazell, 48 said. “I think someone who could do that doesn’t have a heart.”
Two detectives continued to search the suspect’s apartment Sunday.
Moses lived there with a woman, according to a neighbor, Winston Rouse, 72, who said he had never heard them fight or shout at each other.
“It’s shocking to know that someone could do that,” Rouse said.
Body parts were also found at a waste transfer station in Kearny, N.J., which had received some of the trash from the Hunts Point facility, according to WNBC. Authorities had yet to confirm if the gruesome discoveries are linked.
Officials have not yet identified the woman.
In 2006, Moses was convicted of promoting the prostitution of an underage girl, served nearly three years in prison and registered as a sex offender, according to officials.