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Man Wheeled Dead Woman Around Staten Island, Police Say

By Nicholas Rizzi | May 20, 2016 2:56pm | Updated on May 23, 2016 7:58am
 Police are searching for Anthony Lopez, 31, who they spotted wheeling around a dead woman on a metal dolly on Friday, May 20, 2016, the NYPD said.
Police are searching for Anthony Lopez, 31, who they spotted wheeling around a dead woman on a metal dolly on Friday, May 20, 2016, the NYPD said.
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MARINERS HARBOR — A man fled police after they spotted him wheeling around a woman's corpse on a metal dolly Friday morning, the NYPD said.

Officers responded to a 911 report of a man wheeling around a body in Mariners Harbor at about 7:10 a.m., police said.

When they arrived, police spotted Anthony Lopez, 31, who ditched the body in front of 42 Post Lane and ran away from officers, they said.

EMS workers responded and pronounced the woman dead at the scene.

The woman's name is being withheld until family notification and the medical examiner will determine her cause of death, police said.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).