cbs's nicole sganga reports billingsley is also linked to another violent crime from just last week.ear-old suspect jason billingsley was arrested at a train station about 30 miles outside of baltimore. >> billingsley was taken into custody at approximately 11:00 last night. >> reporter: he's now facing 30 charges, including the first-degree murder of pava lapere. police say the 26-year-old tech ceo was killed on friday at this luxury building where she lived in downtown baltimore. authorities found her body days later with signs of blunt force trauma. police calling it a random act. >> we do know that there was no forced entry into the apartment building. >> reporter: this case raising questions about maryland's sentencing laws. billingsley pleaded guilty in 2015 to sexual assault. he was sentenced to 30 years, but 16 of those were ultimately suspended. the suspect was released last october after earning good behavior credits. >> rapists shouldn't be let out early, period. >> reporter: the suspect also charged with rape, arson, and attempted murder in west baltimore just days before

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as nicole sganga reports, billingsley is also linked to another violent crime from just last week. >> reporter: 32-year-old suspect jason billingsley was arrested at a train station about 30 miles outside of baltimore. >> billingsley was taken into custody at approximately 11:00 last night. >> reporter: he's now facing 30 charges including the first-degree murder of pava lapere. police say the 26-year-old tech ceo was killed on friday at this luxury building where she lived in downtown baltimore. authorities found her body days later with signs of blunt force trauma. police calling it a random act. >> we do know that there was no forced entry into the apartment building. >> reporter: this case raises questions about maryland's sentencing laws. billingsley pleaded guilty in 2015 to sexual assault. he was sentenced to 30 years, but 16 were ultimately suspended. the suspect was released last october after earning good behavior credits. >> rapists shouldn't be let out early period. >> reporter: the suspect also charged with rape, arson, and attempted murder in west baltimore days before t

cbs' nicole sganga was given a rare look. >> reporter: in an unmarked building hidden inside a vaultecurity gates. the spoils of the war against drugs. >> the drugs are right here with the fentanyl. >> reporter: chief among the dakotas -- among the stacks, so-called precursors. the chemicals used to make the deadly drug. we're at a secret location inside a u.s. government bunker. all we can tell you is that we're in california. beside me nearly 8,500 pounds of fentanyl and its chemical precursors, soon to be destroyed. before the fentanyl is destroyed, officers have to find it, scouring shipments taken off cargo flights at los angeles international airport. many packages originating from china. >> this literally is ground zero for our fight against fentanyl precursors. >> reporter: cvp acting commissioner troy miller oversees operation artemis. the u.s. counternarcotics mission that intercepted more than 8,000 pounds of precursors in the last three months. >> this is an emergency. it's an opioid epidemic where we have to go after the transnational criminal organizations. >> reporter:

>> john: nicole sganga, thank you.takedown of a major drug trafficking mill in new york city. federal, state, and local law-enforcement officers announced the recovery of more than 40 pounds of suspected fentanyl. cbs's lilia luciano reports authorities said the suspect was transporting the highly lethal drug in a rolling suitcase on the subway, and tonight, they have a warning for all new yorkers. >> what i would tell new yorkers is that they should be vigilant and aware of their surroundings at all times. this powder is very fine. you can get into the air. it can certainly lay on services. >> reporter: police arrested 42 juan gabriel herrera vargas, saying he was using an apartment as a drug mill. officers recovered a total of $1.5 million in value. >> that equates to roughly a million potential weevil doses of fentanyl we remote from new york city streets. >> reporter: investiators say they found envelopes used to hold drugs and stamps to mark them inside the apartment, with windows covered with black trash bags. >>

>> norah: nicole sganga with that important report. thank you very much. possible sighting today of that dangerous fugitive who escaped from prison last week. the search for convicted killer danelo cavalcante is now in its eighth day. surveillance video shows how he climbed onto the roof and walked free moments later. the last confirmed sighting of cavalcante was tuesday night. family members of the woman he stabbed to death are under 24-hour police protection tonight. well, tonight, our new report and reporting on a document detailing congressman george santos' deception that was created and circulated before his election. top republicans in congress are refusing to say whether they saw the damning report and still backed his run for congress. cbs's scott macfarlane has the exclusive breakdown of the report. >> reporter: it was the blueprint for the political scandal that would engulf congressman george santos. a more than 100-page research report obtained exclusively by cbs news, it was commissioned not by his opponent, but by the santos campaign in late

." >>> i'm nicole sganga in washington. thanks for staying with us.en will travel to michigan today to visit striking autoworkers manning the picket lines against detroit's big three carmakers. the uaw launched a limited walkout earlier this month, but that grew friday when 5,600 members walked out on 38 parts and distribution plants. the strike is already taking a toll on car dealers in communities around the idle plants. bradley blackburn reports. >> reporter: at central avenue jeep in yonkers, new york, the lot is packed with new cars, but dealer jonathan grant says a sustained strike by united auto workers could change that. >> i'm afraid if the strike lasts very long, it could really impact our availability. >> and that would affect your bottom line. >> yes, it would. >> reporter: the plant that builds the popular wrangler is currently shut down. ford and gm dealerships could face the same problem if assembly lines sit idle for a prolonged period. >> if it goes beyond 60 or 90 days or grows to other plants, i think the impact could be much more s

." >>> i'm nicole sganga in washington. thanks for staying with us.n cave explorer mark dickey is said to be doing well after his dramatic rescue from one of the deepest caves in turkey. dickey suffered stomach bleeding while more than half a mile underground, and it took rescue teams from a number of countries more than a week to reach him and pull him to the surface. ramy inocencio was at the cave entrance when dickey was hoisted out. >> reporter: surfacing from thousands of feet underground after ten days, rescuers in turkey lifted up ill american explorer mark dickey alive. [ applausese ] this is t the momentt we'veve b waititing and hopoping fofor. mark d dickey i is finally emer frfrom the e earth afterer the ten days. he's being hoisted upup. afteter ththis, he'll b be pass humann chain on t to waiting doctors and then on to a helicopter to the nearest hospital. >> it is amazing to be above ground again. i was underground for far longer than ever expected with an unexpected medical issue. >> reporter: that medical issue, severe gastric pain, th

nicole sganga reports. >> reporter: as a highly choreographed dance of world leaders converges on newopters look on from 1,000 feet above, encircling the united nations headquarters. the hotottest tickeket i in dip carrrries withh it a hefty secuy detail. tens of thousands of officers from federal and city law enforcement fanning out across 23 square miles of manhattan. >> this is a huge event. we have leaders from around the world here, their delegations, their families, their spouses. not only that, we still have a city to protect. >> reporter: on patrol with new york's top uniformed officer, chief jeffrey maddrey, there's no rest for the man protecting the city that never sleeps. >> this city is always bustling. our officers have to be highly visible. >> reporter: visible and ready to redirect traffic amid dozens of street closures. but there's no gridlock in the sky. at 150 miles per hour, nypd's choppers can cut across new york's concrete jungle in as little as eight minutes. >> that's the advantage we have. we don't have to deal with streetlights, stop lights. we can go from poi