A man suspected of slashing the throat of his estranged wife, then stabbing an elderly man for whom she was caring in Milford is now in Milford police custody after being arrested in Philadelphia last month.
Milford police took custody of Amado Rodriguez, 48, in Pennsylvania in March. He is being held on $500,000 and he is due in Milford Superior Court on Thursday.
Rodriguez is accused of entering a home on Washington Street just after 7:30 p.m. on April 19, going into her bedroom and cutting her throat as she slept, then attacking the elderly man, who is visually impaired, and leaving in the man's car.
FBI officials in Philadelphia said their counterparts in Connecticut contacted them the day after the stabbing, when they developed information that Rodriguez had fled the state.
The Milford warrant charges him eith first-degree assault, first-degree assault on an elderly person, home invasion, first-degree burglary, second-degree larceny and criminal violation of a restraining order.
