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 EAST HARLEM, Manhattan – Police have arrested and charged a Bronx man accused of wheeling a dead woman on a dolly on Staten Island. 
 
 Sources said Anthony Lopez, 31, was picked up in East Harlem Saturday morning, thanks to a Crime Stoppers tip. 
 
 Lopez was charged with murder and concealment of a human corpse. 
 
 The NYPD said officers responded to a report of a man pushing a body on a dolly in front of 42 Post Lane in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, about 7 a.m. Friday. Once they arrived, the man fled and police discovered a dead woman on a metal dolly. 
 
 Police identified 26-year-old Obiamaka Aduba as the victim on Saturday. They believe she is Lopez' wife or partner. 
 
 Neighbors said they were familiar with the couple who they claimed had a tumultuous relationship. Police often came to their home. 
 
 "He was smoking that why it was due to drugs. He's been crazy, he's mentally disturbed," said Supreme Coleman. 
 
 Lopez reportedly had 52 prior arrests and neighbors called him a "crackhead" with psychiatric issues. 
 
 The city medical examiner still has to determine the cause of the woman's death. ||||| STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- She was strangled. 
 
 That's what prosecutors say caused the death of Obiamaka Aduba, 26. 
 
 Her husband, Anthony Lopez, 31, is the man police believe wheeled her lifeless body down a Mariners Harbor street a metal dolly on Friday after he allegedly strangled her to death. 
 
 Arraigned in Richmond County Supreme Court before Judge William Garnett on Sunday, Lopez plead not guilty to second degree murder. He was remanded on homicide without bail. 
 
 Lopez was also arraigned on criminal mischief charges from earlier this month. Bail for the criminal mischief charges was set at $1,000; police said Lopez shattered woman's car and a side window with a brick. 
 
 Both matters were adjourned until Tuesday. 
 
 "Every loss of life is a tragedy, and the horrific circumstances surrounding the victim's death makes this case no less troubling," said District Attorney Michael E. McMahon. 
 
 "My office takes any case involving allegations of domestic violence very seriously. I want to applaud the NYPD for their great work in locating and apprehending the defendant. We encourage the members of the community to call our domestic violence hotline at (718)-556-7167 for assistance," he said. 
 
 Published reports say Aduba was the victim of domestic violence on many occasions. 
 
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 Lopez, 31, was apprehended in East Harlem's 23rd Precinct on Saturday. He was taken into custody following a manhunt using helicopters and dogs. 
 
 Police said they found Lopez while acting on a tip and that he was arrested following a brief foot chase. They added that he had shaved his head to disguise his appearance. 
 
 Cops had been searching for Lopez since early Friday morning when an off-duty police officer observed him wheeling Aduba's lifeless body on a metal dolly in Mariners Harbor, police said. 
 
 The officer reportedly recognized Lopez because he had arrested him in the past. The officer approached Lopez, who then dumped the body in front of a home on Post Lane and fled, according to cops. 
 
 Aduba was wrapped in a sheet and had bruising on her body, but it wasn't immediately clear if the marks had anything to do with her death. 
 
 The city medical examiner will determine the cause of death. 
 
 PRIOR ARRESTS 
 
 Lopez has a lengthy criminal history, including 34 prior arrests, 15 of which are sealed. Those prior arrests include charges of robbery, theft and assault, police said. 
 
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 Three rookie cops caught Appalachian ex-con David Albert Mitchell, 42, strolling down an upper West Side street, and the victim later picked him out of a lineup. 
 
 
 
 The West Virginia native — who has been locked up most of his adult life — did not confess and asked for a lawyer. 
 
 
 
 But he was nabbed with the memory card from the victim’s camera, which he snatched after dragging her into the brush to beat and rape her Wednesday morning, police said. 
 
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 “He’s clearly a violent, dangerous individual,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. 
 
 
 
 The disheveled suspect — covered in tattoos of warriors, dragons and the Grim Reaper — angrily spat at reporters as he was taken to Central Booking. 
 
 
 
 Hours later, he remained silent as he was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court and ordered held without bail. 
 
 
 
 Mitchell’s disturbing criminal history began when he was just 18 and charged with molesting and beating to death 87-year-old Annie Parks during a burglary in his hometown of Jenkinjones near the border of Kentucky and Virginia. 
 
 
 
 A jury acquitted him, and months later he was accused of raping a woman in her 70s during another break-in, the Charleston Gazette reported. 
 
 
 
 “He asked me to get him the best possible plea deal,” said Sid Bell, who was his lawyer at the time and is now a prosecutor. 
 
 Marc A. Hermann for New York Daily News 
 
 Mitchell pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery, was sentenced to 10 years and did about eight in state prison. 
 
 
 
 After his release, the ex-con was arrested at least twice more before being convicted of kidnapping in 2003 and sent back to prison for eight more years. 
 
 
 
 He was busted several times in the past two years for probation violations and petty crimes but didn’t serve any hard time before he left for New York. 
 
 
 
 James Keivom/New York Daily News 
 
 Mitchell’s brushes with the law “were always sexually driven,” his sister-in-law and ex-girlfriend Saretta Mitchell told The Associated Press. She said she was the victim in the 2003 case and was nearly sexually assaulted by the drunken predator when he dragged her from her home. 
 
 
 
 Investigators believe he arrived here three or four months ago and was sleeping in Central Park. And he soon found trouble again, sources said. 
 
 
 
 He threatened Ayrton Ferreria dos Santos, a performance artist known as the “Mayor of Strawberry Fields,” with a knife on Aug. 20, police said. 
 
 
 
 “He pulled a 6-inch shank on me,” dos Santos said. “It all happened over a joint.” 
 
 
 
 Michael Schwartz for New York Daily News 
 
 A week ago, Mitchell was masturbating in a section of the park called The Ramble when the elderly bird watcher inadvertently photographed him — triggering a scary encounter, Browne said. 
 
 
 
 “What are you doing?” the man demanded when he saw her camera. “Give me that.” 
 
 
 
 The woman, a professional photographer, ran off without reporting the incident. Then, on Wednesday morning, while she was trying out a new camera lens in the park, the same man pounced and began pummeling her, police said. 
 
 
 
 “Do you remember me?” he asked. Then he dragged her into the brush and brutalized her. 
 
 
 
 “This was a revenge attack,” the shaken and bandaged victim told Channel 7 Thursday night. 
 
 
 
 She said she would not let the attack deter her from her beloved hobby, vowing, “Nobody is going to take that pleasure away from me.” Detectives discovered the earlier photo of Mitchell on the woman’s hard drive and gathered surveillance photos of the attacker leaving the park. 
 
 
 
 The NYPD beefed up patrols near the park. Officers Enmanuel Rodriguez, Steven Ourelio and Sicelin Ortiz spotted Mitchell Wednesday evening at W. 77th St. and Amsterdam Ave. 
 
 
 
 “We had very alert rookie officers who recognized him,” Browne said. 
 
 
 
 After the victim identified him, the career criminal was charged with rape, a predatory sex act, a criminal sex act, robbery and felony assault. He was also charged with menacing in the knife incident last month. 
 
 New York Daily News 
 
 It was the first rape in the park this year, and Mayor Bloomberg said New Yorkers should not be fearful. “I feel so sorry for the woman,” he said. “It’s a terrible thing, but I think the overall history of safety in the park says it’s one of the safest places you can be.”But some parkgoers were still nervous. “I am appalled. I spend so much time in the park — that is really, really scary,” said Andy Young, 33, an actress who lives in midtown.Derrick Edwards, 29, a tour guide from Brooklyn, said he had no qualms about using the park. “This ain’t the ’70s. It’s so rare that it’s not a concern.”With Edgar Sandoval, Rich Schapiro, Tina Moore, and Jennifer H. Cunninghamtconnor@nydailynews.com
– Neighbors describe Anthony Lopez as a mentally disturbed crack addict, which would go some way toward explaining his alleged crime. Police say the 31-year-old strangled his wife to death and pushed her body on a metal dolly down a street in Staten Island Friday morning, reports the New York Daily News. He allegedly dumped the body of Obiamaka Aduba, 26, on the front lawn of a home and took off after an off-duty cop spotted the corpse, which had been partially covered by a sheet, the Staten Island Advance reports. Lopez was arrested in East Harlem on Saturday after officers acting on a tip chased him down. Authorities say Lopez has 52 arrests and a long history of domestic violence involving Aduba, reports the New York Daily News. "It was due to drugs. He's been crazy, he's mentally disturbed," a neighbor tells PIX11. In a court appearance Sunday, Lopez pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and begged for methadone to help him with drug withdrawal. He's being held without bail and will appear in court again on Tuesday. In Sunday's court appearance, Lopez was also charged with criminal mischief for throwing a brick at a car windshield earlier this month.