A Columbus man charged in connection with the blunt force trauma death of a 2-year-old boy in 2020 has been arrested in Massachusetts after officers realized he was disguised as a woman, according to the U.S. Marshals Service for the Southern District of Ohio.
Dioblis Williams, 25, was arrested at around 8:30 a.m. Aug. 27 by the U.S. Marshals Service District of Massachusetts Fugitive Task Force in Framingham, approximately 23 miles west of Boston. Williams was charged on Aug. 19 with murder in connection with the 2020 beating death of 2-year-old Jamir Jones while babysitting Jones on the city's Northeast Side, The Dispatch previously reported.
According to a Facebook post from the Framingham Police Department, a K-9 officer was in downtown Framingham traveling to a briefing with the Marshals Service and state police regarding Williams when he noticed two people walking on the sidewalk, one of whom was wearing a wig. Other officers noticed and discovered that it was Williams wearing the wig and arrested him, police said.
The marshals did not say what connection Williams had to Massachusetts or who the other person was who was walking with Williams.
"Within eight days of this warrant being issued our investigators were able to coordinate the arrest of this suspect with our USMS partners in Massachusetts," U.S. Marshal Michael Black of the Southern Ohio District, which includes Columbus, said in a news release.
Williams will be arraigned in Massachusetts and extradited back to Ohio to face the murder charge.
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio man charged in toddler’s death, arrested in Massachusetts
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