Lady arraigned for dismembering tenant

Browne                                                                               Cuevas

A brooklyn woman has been charged with the murder after the dismembered body parts of her tenant was found on long island.

Leah Cuevas, 42 , who lives in the same Brooklyn apartment building as the woman police said she killed, Chinelle Latoya Thompson Browne, was arrested early Wednesday by Suffolk police officers and the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force.

Her arrest came nearly three weeks after Browne disappeared from the Bedford-Stuyvesant building at 346 Sumpter St. where both lived.

Cuevas killed Browne on July 5, a day after she "angrily confronted" her neighbor "over what she claimed to be the nonpayment of rent and utilities,". Not long after, Browne was reported missing. Body parts, a torso and severed legs,were found within days in Bay Shore.

Trouble started for Browne after the lights in her apartment went off, she went to met Cuevas, her landlord to complain about the issue, a hot argument ensued with both women yelling at each other. Browne finally left but cuevas followed her into the street and continued to yell at her. The next day, Browne was seen pushing a shopping cart into her apartment, moments later, another argument ensued between browne and cuevas.witnesses heard parts of the argument that authorities said ended with Browne dead in Cuevas' apartment.

Browne's body parts were first found in a Bay Shore lot less than a mile from Cuevas' sister's home.The next day, an arm was found on the lawn of a home in Hempstead. Another arm was found July 10 in a yard about half a mile away.Browne's head was found July 17 in another Hempstead yard.