NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police say they finally caught up with a man wanted in connection with the death of a nurse in Queens, discovering the suspect on the other side of the country with another woman held captive in a Los Angeles hotel room. 
 
 Danueal Drayton, 27, of New Haven, Conn., was taken into custody Thursday. 
 
 The hunt began after 29-year-old nurse Samantha Stewart was found dead inside her bedroom at her family home in Springfield Gardens, Queens, on July 17. Police say Stewart suffered trauma to her head and neck. 
 
 “A lot of sorrow is in my heart,” her aunt, Ruby Dixon, told CBS2’s Tony Aiello after learning about Drayton’s arrest. “My niece was the best you ever could find in a human being.” 
 
 Police had been searching for the person responsible for Stewart’s murder and also another incident involving the rape of a 23-year-old woman that happened the month before in Gowanus, Brooklyn. 
 
 Both investigations led them to the same suspect, when the joint New York/New Jersey Police Task Force caught up with Drayton. 
 
 “There was a separate woman in a hotel room in California that was being held against her will,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea. 
 
 “Right after he commit a gruesome murder here and destroy my family, he went to California and just almost did the same thing,” Stewart’s father, Kenneth, said. “Thank God they catch him before he could destroy another family.” 
 
 When we captured Danuel Drayton in LA for the murder of Queens nurse Samantha Stewart, he had another victim held captive. He's off the streets but may have victimized others via online dating sites. Need help or have info? Call 800-577-TIPS/ sex crimes hotline 212-267-RAPE pic.twitter.com/iif7E9KuyA — Chief Dermot F. Shea (@NYPDDetectives) July 26, 2018 
 
 Authorities believe Drayton met both of those women on Tinder and their first meeting was in a public space. They say he also may have used other dating sites to meet potential victims. 
 
 “The common denominator in these two cases – one being a murder, one being a rape – is dating websites,” said Shea. “So this individual is known to us and it is believed by us that this individual uses dating web sites to meet women and then victimize these women.” 
 
 Police say Drayton was well known to police. He was arrested in June for allegedly choking an ex-girlfriend at Inwood Park in Nassau County. One July 1, his bail was set at $1,000. On July 5, a judge dropped the bail requirement, over the objection of the district attorney, and Drayton walked free. 
 
 He also has five prior arrests in his home state of Connecticut, including a strangulation arrest in 2011. 
 
 “I’m devastated by my loss of my daughter, but hearing this news now it really, really shocks me, throws me over the edge,” said Kenneth Stewart. 
 
 Police believe there may be more victims out there and are asking for anyone affected or who has information to come forward. 
 
 “Be careful. If you meet up with someone, tell somebody,” Dixon said. “Tell a family member, tell a friend. You don’t know who these monsters are.” 
 
 Stewart’s funeral is set for Saturday. ||||| A Connecticut man on probation for harassment was charged last week with attempted murder in Los Angeles and is a suspect in the killing of a nurse in New York City earlier this month. 
 
 Several media outlets in New York, including the New York Daily News, are also reporting that Danueal Drayton admitted to police in Los Angeles that he has killed as many as seven woman, including some in Connecticut. Police said they could not be certain Drayton was telling the truth. 
 
 Drayton was last arrested in Connecticut in January and charged with second-degree harassment. He pleaded guilty in March and received a suspended prison sentence and one year of probation. 
 
 Connecticut probation officials could not be reached for comment Sunday night to comment on how Drayton was on probation yet arrested across the country. 
 
 Drayton is scheduled to appear in court in California on Monday to face attempted murder, forcible rape and false imprisonment by violence and other charges, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney. He is being held in lieu of $1.25 million bail. 
 
 Drayton, 27, who has lived in Hamden and East Haven, has been arrested by New Haven, East Haven and Waterbury police on a variety of charges, including second-degree strangulation, unlawful restraint and violation of a protective order. 
 
 His longest prison term appears to have been for a 2015 case, for which he received five years, suspended after he served two years, and 29 months of probation. 
 
 New York Police Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea said earlier this week via Twitter that when police captured Drayton in Los Angeles for the killing of Samantha Stewart, a nurse from Queens, he had been holding another woman captive in her apartment. 
 
 “He’s off the streets but may have victimized others via online dating sites,” Shea tweeted. 
 
 Drayton met Stewart through the online dating app Tinder, according to the New York Daily News. 
 
 New York police tracked Drayton across the country after he became a suspect in the July 17 killing of Stewart. She was strangled in her apartment, police told the newspaper. 
 
 The suspected killer purchased a one-way ticket to California shortly after Stewart’s death — and lined up his next victim once on the West Coast, arranging a date with her, the Daily News reported, citing unnamed police sources. Police traced Drayton’s white Ford from Stewart’s home to a John F. Kennedy International Airport parking lot, where they found the victim’s AAA card and the suspect’s release papers from a Nassau County choking arrest last month, the newspaper reported. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.
– He was on probation in Connecticut; eyed as a suspect in a New York murder; and now has been busted across the country for rape and attempted murder. Danueal Drayton offered some other crimes to cops in Los Angeles when he was arrested and charged there last week, per the Hartford Courant: He may be responsible for the deaths of up to seven others. Police aren't sure Drayton, 27, is being truthful about those killings, but they are sure he's wanted for the slaying of 29-year-old Queens nurse Samantha Stewart, who police say Drayton met on Tinder, per the New York Daily News. And authorities believe the woman they say Drayton was holding in a North Hollywood apartment also met him on Tinder, and that he may have used other dating sites to lure victims as well, CBS New York reports. Per the Washington Post, Drayton's brushes with the law date back to at least 2011. Charges against him in Connecticut have included strangulation and harassment, for which he received a year on probation after pleading guilty in March. On June 30, he was arrested for allegedly choking an ex but released without bail on July 5. Stewart was found dead on July 17, strangled in her apartment. Authorities say he bought a plane ticket to California shortly after that and soon set up a date with the woman he's accused of holding in the North Hollywood apartment. Police say Drayton's use of Tinder was linked to both Stewart and to a Brooklyn woman who'd been raped on June 17 and who allegedly knew him from the dating site. "My body did this, not my mind," a police source says Drayton told LA investigators, per the Daily News. Drayton, who's set to appear in California court Monday, will face charges of attempted murder, forcible rape, and false imprisonment by violence, among others.