SANTA CLARA – After a mixed seven years on the run, a 34-year-old man has been arrested and extradited to Santa Clara County to face youngster molestation fees, police mentioned.
Daniel Thomas was first arrested in 2015. Throughout felony proceedings, he was launched from custody and failed to look in courtroom, the Santa Clara Police Division mentioned in a press release. A warrant was then issued for his arrest.
Thomas was discovered 5 years later in Plumas County. On the time, Thomas allegedly offered a number of aliases to keep away from detection, however sheriff’s deputies there recognized and arrested him.
Santa Clara police detectives introduced Thomas again to Santa Clara County, the place he was once more launched from custody. As a situation of his launch, he was ordered to put on an ankle monitor, however he lower the system off and fled the county, police mentioned.
Thomas allegedly hid his identification and whereabouts, however detectives decided he was doubtless in Shasta County. On Sept. 14, Santa Clara police – with the assistance of the Redding Police Division, Shasta County Sheriff’s Workplace, Plumas County Sheriff’s Workplace and members of the area people – arrested him with out incident in Shingletown.
Police mentioned Thomas was extradited to Santa Clara County, the place he was booked into jail on no-bail warrants for 20 counts of lewd acts with minors beneath the age of 14 by the use of power, violence, duress, menace or worry and failure to look in courtroom.
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