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By Paul Simao
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Police in Atlanta on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of murdering at least five women in Louisiana, city police chief Richard Pennington said.
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Derrick Lee, 34, was taken into custody at around 8:30 p.m. by members of a joint FBI (news - web sites)-Atlanta police department task force who were acting on a tip from the public, Pennington told a news conference.
"We have taken a very dangerous person off the streets and now he can be transported and extradited back to Louisiana so he can meet his justice," Pennington said.
The police chief said Lee was arrested without incident after producing identification and was taken to Atlanta police headquarters, where he was being held overnight. Lee was not armed at the time of his arrest.
His arrest came just hours after Atlanta police had warned the public to be on the lookout for Lee. On Monday, the FBI released his photo and asked for the public's assistance in capturing the fugitive (news - Y! TV).
Lee, the main suspect in a string of murders committed in the southern part of Louisiana since 2001, was sighted several times in an Atlanta motel shortly after the FBI photo was circulated.
Motel residents described him as a charming ladies' man who spent his time talking, drinking and grilling meat, according to television news reports.
Lee apparently fled the motel shortly before it was raided by police. Authorities said they suspected he may have been in Atlanta for as long as a week.
On Monday, Lee was charged with murder and aggravated rape in Louisiana for the killing of a 26-year-old university student. Authorities say DNA later taken from Lee links him to that murder as well as four others in the state.
The four other victims were Gina Green, 41, Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, and Pamela Kinamore, 42, all of Baton Rouge; and Trineisha Dene Colomb, 23, of Lafayette. Colomb was the only victim whose body was found outside the Baton Rouge area.
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