New York Daily News

3rd arrest in killing, McD’s dump

- BY THOMAS TRACY

Police have arrested a third suspect in the murder of a 65-year-old Bronx man forced to drink cleaning fluid before his corpse was thrown onto the roof of a McDonald’s, officials said Wednesday.

Angel Andino, 22, was arrested Aug. 13 for the July 15 murder of Richard Hamlet inside the victim’s apartment on E. 149th St. near Morris Ave. in Melrose.

Police describe the killing as a burglary that went horribly wrong: After forcing their way into Hamlet’s apartment, Andino and two accomplice­s beat and strangled him, then forced cleaning fluid and pills down his throat until he died.

They then wrapped his body in plastic and hurled him from a window of the four-story building. Hamlet’s body landed on the roof of the McDonald’s next door, where a maintenanc­e man found him just before 6 a.m.

Two days after Hamlet’s body was found, cops arrested Ayame Stamoulis, 18, and hit her with slew of charges, including murder.

On July 20, cops arrested a second accomplice, Jonathan Rodriguez, 21, charging him with murder and criminally negligent homicide.

After he was implicated in the crime, members of the NYPD’s Violent Felony Squad found Andino lying low in Coney Island, officials said.

He was captured after he was seen at the corner of Surf Ave. and Seabreeze Ave. and brought back to the Bronx, where he implicated himself in Hamlet’s murder, sources said.

Andino was charged with murder, burglary, robbery, gang assault and the concealmen­t of a human corpse and was ordered held without bail during an arraignmen­t via video from a Bronx hospital on Monday.

He had been expected to be arraigned Friday, but needed medical attention while waiting for his court appearance at Bronx central booking, officials said.

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