TULA, October 22 (RAPSI) – Police in Tula region detained a 61 year old man who was on the international wanted list for murder he committed in the US, the Interior Ministry reported on Tuesday.

The police reports that on April 16 2011, two women were killed in their apartment in Brooklyn, New York. The American authorities claim that the murders were carried out by a Russian national who subsequently left US for Russian Federation.

After receiving the case materials from the American law enforcement, the Russian police has detained an unemployed man who lived in the Tula region.

The man is charged with multiple murder, and if convicted may be sentenced to 20 years in prison. One of the women was his civil wife, and the other was her daughter.