"With a warrant out for his arrest, Lutts hosted monthly trivia nights at a Toronto bar and provided relationship advice to clients as a self-styled psychic. His arrest in February 2025 by Toronto police's fugitive squad came after a Crime Stoppers-type service in Florida received an anonymous tip about his whereabouts in November 2023. The tip appears to have come from a U.S.-based internet sleuth who claims to have used facial recognition technology and social media clues to track Lutts to Toronto."
"Lutts was charged with two counts of DUI manslaughter after his truck smashed into a vehicle carrying 19-year-old Nancy Lopez and her 18-year-old boyfriend, Darvin Javier DeJesus-Taboada, on Christmas morning in Orlando in 1998. The couple was killed on impact. Investigators said the Texas-born Lutts had spent Christmas Eve drinking and had a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit and a "strong odour of alcohol coming from his breath."
"Lopez's stepbrother Ralph Anthony Cordero told CBC News earlier this year that her family never lost hope that Lutts would be found, even after more than two decades on the lam. "It was very pleasing to see that he's no longer running free," Cordero said. "The motivator" for Lopez's loved ones, Cordero said, "was to ensure that this guy does not die before we get our hands on him." Lutts faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted."
Lutts, 52, lived openly in Toronto after skipping a 2003 plea hearing in Orlando and evaded arrest for more than two decades. He hosted monthly trivia nights and offered relationship advice as a self-styled psychic while under a U.S. warrant. He was arrested in February 2025 after an anonymous tip to a Florida Crime Stoppers-type service in November 2023, reportedly from a U.S.-based internet sleuth who used facial recognition and social media clues. Extradited to Orlando, Lutts faces two counts of DUI manslaughter for a 1998 crash that killed Nancy Lopez and Darvin Javier DeJesus-Taboada and faces up to 30 years if convicted. Family members expressed relief.
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