CARMEL – A 27-year-old Pawling man was arrested Friday night in connection with the murder of a 66-year-old taxicab driver from Brewster who had been reported missing by his family on December 1.

Sheriff Brian Hess made the announcement at a Saturday news conference identifying the suspect as Santos Vasquez-Ramirez.

Police were summoned to the Croton Falls Reservoir off Daisy Lane in the southern portions of Carmel a week ago Sunday by a fisherman who reported finding a body in the water.

The victim was the cabbie, Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez of Danbury, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy revealed that Zhunio-Orbez, father of four, had been murdered.

Hess said Vasquez-Ramirez was arrested at his residence and was taken into custody following a brief struggle, admitting that he

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