Man accused of Casa Grande bombing charged in Maricopa killing

A 48-year-old Coolidge man accused of igniting an explosive device at a Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande has been indicted for the Nov. 27 murder of a 26-year-old father shot and killed in Maricopa.

Authorities released new information regarding the homicide investigation at a press conference Monday at Maricopa’s new police headquarters, scheduled to open in September.

A grand jury last week found there was sufficient evidence to indict Abdullatif Ali Aldosary on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated assault and two counts of misconduct involving weapons. He is accused of killing Orlando Requena of Casa Grande. 

Requena was a train worker employed by Arizona Grain, a Casa Grande-based company with a facility on Cowtown Road, located on the southeast side of Maricopa. He was shot multiple times about 2:40 a.m. in a train offloading area near the facility by a person wearing a dark ski mask. 

Three days later, federal authorities took Aldosary into custody related to the Nov. 30 bombing of a Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande. For that incident, Aldosary has been indicted on 14 counts of attempted first-degree murder – each charge for an individual inside the building. Other charges include arson of an occupied structure and depositing explosives. 

Aldosary has been in federal custody since November. Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles said he will soon be booked into Pinal County Jail. 

FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas Price said Monday that a person at a diner near the Social Security Administration building managed to get the license plate number of a vehicle that had parked in the building’s lot right before an explosion occurred. There were no fatalities in the incident. 

Aldosary was later taken into custody at his residence in Coolidge, Price said. The FBI used a SWAT team and bomb technicians to secure the residence before executing a search warrant. Two firearms were found in his attic while hundreds of ammunition rounds were located in a bedroom. Federal authorities also found information on how to make and deploy a Molotov cocktail – a device, usually a bottle filled with flammable liquid, designed to ignite a target.

The day after the Nov. 30 incident in Casa Grande, a Maricopa detective contacted the FBI to see if there were any similarities between the homicide at Arizona Grain and the bombing, said Maricopa Police Chief Steve Stahl. Evidence related to bullet casings found at the scene led to identifying Aldosary as a suspect. 

Ballistics testing was conducted and other evidence was analyzed at a Department of Public Safety crime lab in Tucson. 

Stahl said Aldosary and Requena were both coworkers at Arizona Grain “at one point in time,” and their last known contact with each other was six months prior to the Nov. 27 killing.