Man Accused In Double Murders Extradited From Mexico To MD

GLEN BURNIE, MD — A man who fled to Mexico as Maryland authorities were searching for him in connection with two Glen Burnie homicides is now in custody in Anne Arundel County, officials said. Edwin Javier Hurtado-Valdez, 19, was arrested in a Mexican border town last month, and brought to Anne Arundel County by U.S. marshals on April 17, police said.

His wife, Cambria May Lynn Sieck, 18, surrendered to police at the Eastern District police station in Pasadena in late March. The couple, both of the 3700 block of Tenth Street in Brooklyn, were arrested on warrants for murder and accessory after the fact, respectively. Detectives learned Hurtado-Valdez had fled en route to Mexico and began disseminating wanted flyers to the southern United States. On March 27, the State Police of Tamaulipas Mexico in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, contacted police in the United States with word that Hurtado-Valdez might have been in the city on the U.S.-Mexican border of Laredo, Texas.

Hurtado-Valdez and Sieck are accused in the deaths of two Glen Burnie men. Antwon Elijah Queen, 20, from the 500 block of Baltic Avenue in Brooklyn, was found shot to death just before 5 p.m. March 24 in a parking lot in the 300 block of Highland Drive, while Antwan Troy Briggs, 24, with no fixed address, was found dead soon after within an apartment complex in the 300 block of Highland Drive.

Several witnesses gave Anne Arundel County Police a description of the shooter and vehicle at the shooting scene. On March 25, the suspect vehicle was located in the 8000 block of Sexton Road in Pasadena. When a search warrant was executed, evidence linked to the murders of Briggs and Queen was found on the outside and inside of the vehicle, authorities said.

Hurtado-Valdez was taken into custody by the State Police of Tamaulipas Mexico without incident. He waived extradition back to the United States and now faces charges related to the murders of Briggs and Queen, police said.

Investigators believed Sieck had also fled the state to avoid arrest, but convinced her family to have Sieck turn herself in. On March 29 just after midnight, she surrendered to homicide detectives at the Anne Arundel County Police Eastern District station. She is being held at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center on a no-bond status.

Hurtado-Valdez is charged with two counts of first- and second-degree murder, two counts of first- and second-degree assault, and firearm use in a felony violent crime.

Sieck helped her husband hide evidence and flee the area knowing he was involved in the double murders, police say. She was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact.

Anyone with information in the case is asked to call the Anne Arundel County Homicide Unit at 410-222-4731. If anyone with information wishes to remain anonymous, they can call the Anne Arundel County Police Tip Line at 410-222-4700.