Break comes from Canada in 14-year-old Philadelphia homicide, decapitation

BY STEPHANIE FARR, Daily News Staff Writer
Posted: August 14, 2012

A MAN WHO was pulled over in Toronto for allegedly driving drunk was arrested in connection with the 14-year-old murder of a Philadelphia man who had been decapitated and dumped in two South Jersey trash bins.

Toronto police said Kai-Guo Huang, 35, was arrested about 1 a.m. last Tuesday for driving under the influence of intoxicants.

During his arrest, Huang falsely identified himself as Yu Chen of Toronto and was released pending a court date, police said. Huang's fingerprints taken after his arrest revealed his true identity and his status as a fugitive from Philadelphia, according to police.

On Friday, authorities arrested Huang on a murder warrant in the 1998 slaying of Hoi Yang, 27, of Chinatown. Yang's headless body was found dismembered and stashed in separate trash containers in Pemberton, N.J. Huang is awaiting extradition.

Yang had cleaned and delivered fish for a Chinatown market but had quit just weeks before his death, according to Daily News reports at the time.

There was speculation that Yang may have been a member of an Asian gang and that he'd moved to Philadelphia because he'd become embroiled in a turf fight in Brooklyn.

However, those who knew him in Chinatown said that although Huang "used to smell like liquor and owed some people money," he was not a gangster.

Contact Stephanie Farr at farrs@phillynews.com or 215-854-4225. Follow her on Twitter @FarFarrAway and read her blog PhillyConfidential.com.

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