Fugitive caught in Limestone Man found at Loring Job Corps Center sought in 4 Trenton, N.J., homicides

LIMESTONE – A 21-year-old Trenton, N.J., man wanted in connection with four homicides in that city was arrested without incident Wednesday afternoon at the Loring Job Corps Center.

Kareem M. Singleton was being held in the Aroostook County Jail on a fugitive from justice warrant from New Jersey on Wednesday night. He is expected to make his initial court appearance in an Aroostook County court sometime Thursday. He was taken into custody at the Job Corps site around noon Wednesday.

Aroostook County Sheriff James Madore said details were still forthcoming on Singleton, but Trenton, N.J., authorities said Singleton was the last of 11 suspects to be arrested in connection with a triple gang-related slaying there. He is wanted on conspiracy charges alleging that he hindered the apprehension of a murder suspect by driving the person to Delaware.

The Superior Court warrant seeking Singleton’s arrest was sent to the Sheriff’s Department from Mercer County, N.J.

Madore said the information about Singleton being at the Job Corps Center came to the Sheriff’s Department from the U.S. Border Patrol and the Central Maine Violent Crimes Task Force.

The three murders in Trenton were part of a gang crime spree. According to Madore, authorities believe Singleton is a “ranking member” of an inner-city gang known as the Bounty Hunter Bloods.

Madore said the arrest was made by Aroostook County Detective Dan Robertson, Sgt. Larry Goff and Deputies Kris Malmborg and Vance Palmer.

Singleton had been at Job Corps about one month in a masonry program, Madore said.

According to the Trentonian newspaper, between March 30 and May 26 of last year, the gang members were linked to the firebombing of 24-year-old Rasheen Glover’s home in Trenton that killed the father and his two daughters, Janaya Glover, 6, and Jyasia Watson, 7; a shooting, littering the Continental Motors dealership with Molotov cocktails, burning down two houses on Cleveland Avenue and the murder of rival gangster Denneshia Ledbetter behind Trenton High School.

Authorities said Kelvin Barnes, 18, of Trenton allegedly bought the gasoline and bombed Glover’s home because the victim “publicly disrespected” the gang member during an ongoing dispute over drugs.

After the fire, gang members helped the juvenile gangster flee the city by collecting money and hiring Singleton, whose nickname is “Red Bear,” to drive him to Delaware.

But Barnes was arrested in Delaware on robbery charges in August and extradited back to Trenton to face murder charges. Singleton has remained at large since then.