Officials find mistakenly freed suspect

CLEVELAND (AP) -- U.S. Marshals officials say they have arrested a man authorities suspect in a murder who was mistakenly freed earlier this month in Prince George's County in Maryland.
Pedro Guifarro, 25, was caught in Cleveland on Saturday.
Authorities said they tracked Guifarro, of Chillum, Md., to Honduras Auto Repair Shop in Cleveland, where he had recently been hired. Guifarro was wearing a garage uniform and had a fake state ID that identified him as Esteban Badillo of North Olmsted, said Pete Elliott, the U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Ohio.
Guifarro is accused of being the driver in what prosecutors believe was a gang-related slaying Aug. 1 in Maryland.
Guifarro was arraigned Sept. 16. His file was sent back to Prince George's Circuit Court Judge Vincent J. Femia on Oct. 4 for rearraignment because it appeared that Guifarro didn't have an attorney.
The judge ordered Guifarro's release. Femia had been told several days earlier about a different defendant, whose attorney had asked Femia to rescind a bench warrant, which the attorney had said was in error. Femia got the two defendants mixed up, he said in an interview, and released the wrong man. Femia acknowledged that he "screwed up."
Guifarro was being held in the Cleveland city jail, Elliott said. It was not immediately clear when Guifarro would return to Maryland.