Suspect in deaths of two New York women arrested in Collier traffic stop
Patrick RileyAn East Naples man who was arrested by Collier County deputies on suspicion of driving without a valid license this week is being held on a warrant in connection with the 2000 slaying of a Bronx woman.
Christopher Gonzalez, 36, was booked at the Naples Jail Center, where he remained because no bail was set on the murder charge.
Deputies stopped Gonzalez, who was driving a 2003 Honda Accord, near Pine Ridge and Livingston roads at 8 a.m. Tuesday after they learned he was driving without a valid license, the Collier County Sheriff's Office reported.
Gonzalez also was arrested in April on suspicion of driving without a license, the arrest report states.
Deputies found Gonzalez had multiple warrants out for his arrest, including one from North Carolina and two from New York.
Gonzalez was sought in connection with the Dec. 2, 2000, killing of Dora Devalle Almontaser, 19, according to the New York Police Department.
NYPD officials said she was found dead in her family's apartment at 1186 E. 180th St. in the Bronx. A fingerprint found at the scene led investigators to identify Gonzalez, police reported.
Almontaser had been house-sitting for her uncle and was found strangled with a telephone cord wrapped around her neck, the New York Times reported in 2000.
Almontaser and her husband lived near the Bronx home, but she was taking care of her uncle's apartment while he was in a hospital, family members told the Times at the time.
Gonzalez also is a suspect in the 2005 strangling death of a Yonkers woman, The Journal News in Westchester, New York, reported.
The body of Angel Serbay, 25, was found wrapped in a blanket on the side of a road in Greenburgh, New York, on Sept. 3, 2005.
Gonzalez, who is set to appear in a Collier court Nov. 29, has to go through the court system on the Collier charge — driving with a suspended license — before he can be extradited to New York, said Michelle Batten, a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman.
"How long that will take will be up to a judge," she wrote in an email.
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