Overview

• Gerelys Sánchez-Reyes was detained on June 26 at Santiago de Compostela’s Lavacolla airport as she tried to board a flight to Brussels after two months hiding in the city.
• U.S. Marshals and Interpol had issued an international warrant and offered a $20,000 reward following the April 5 discovery of victim Yuleisy Torrelles Martínez’s body concealed in a Philadelphia sofa bed with multiple stab wounds.
• Spain’s Policía Nacional mobilized fugitive-tracking units alongside the U.S. embassy to secure the provisional arrest order from the Audiencia Nacional within hours of confirming her identity.
• A tip from a local resident more than two months ago set off undercover surveillance that ultimately led officers to follow Sánchez-Reyes onto her airport bus.
• Following her imprisonment in Spain, she will be extradited in the coming days to Pennsylvania to face charges of murder, robbery and desecration of a corpse.