Trini chopper found in US jail

Proboodat Joucoo, 48, is charged with attempted homicide in the attack on his estranged wife, Gaytri Collet, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn last May.

Joucoo has been jailed in Pennsylvania since March, when police charged him, under an alias, with sexually assaulting a woman.

Joucoo’s case was featured on the television show America’s Most Wanted in May and a former jailmate recognised him and contacted authorities, who sent a picture of the man to New York City police. New York City detectives arrived in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to interview the woman Joucoo allegedly assaulted there. On Thursday, Joucoo acknowledged his real identity and waived extradition to New York.

New York authorities said Joucoo sliced off his wife’s arms, but they were surgically reattached. She recovered sufficiently to tell her story on America’s Most Wanted. Joucoo will eventually be brought back to Pennsylvania to face trial on the sexual assault charges.