After 20 years of being a fugitive, he was finally caught. What should happen?

Fugitive arrested 20 years after escape from federal custody


Associated Press

MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas - An illegal immigrant who walked away from an Oklahoma federal detention camp more than two decades ago was in custody Monday after his arrest during a traffic stop.

Martin Hernandez Gonzalez managed to avoid federal detection for years because his case somehow slipped through the system, said Deputy U.S. Marshal John Laster.

"For some reason, they did not file a complaint on him" for the escape, Laster said.

Hernandez, a Mexican citizen, was serving a sentence of less than a year for a misdemeanor charge of illegal entry into the U.S. when he disappeared about 21 years ago. He left the minimum security camp outside the El Reno Federal Corrections Institution in Oklahoma with a little more than a month left to serve, Laster said.

Hernandez's case didn't surface again until this fall, when prison officials were reviewing their files. A search found he'd been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Mount Pleasant, Laster said.

The information was sent to the U.S. Marshals Service offices in the area. But without a warrant for Hernandez, marshals were apprehensive about arresting him. So Hernandez's name was added to the National Crime Information Center, a database used by law enforcement, Laster said.

When a Mount Pleasant police officer stopped a man Thursday for driving a car without headlights on, authorities captured Hernandez. He was going by Martin Medina Hernandez, 40, the Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune reported in Monday's edition.

Hernandez was arrested and charged by local officials with driving while intoxicated. He was being held at Titus County Jail on that count and a federal charge of escape while arrested. Authorities also placed an immigration hold on him, jail officials said.

He will be prosecuted on the DWI charge, serve the remainder of his federal sentence in Texarkana and then be deported, Laster said.

Evilmouse, love your answer. As a matter of fact, I like most of the answers I got.

This person broke the law twice (possibly more). He should face the consequences of his actions now that he has been caught.

He should be deported to Mexico (though personally i'd prefer he be sent to Sudan or some backwater African country)

I also noticed people gave this post and almost all the answers here a thumbs down... seems like there are some criminal lovers/supporters out there.

If the US is going to show they are serious about illegal immigrants, then they should send him back.

he should be sent back but there should not be any charges against him.

There's nothing anyone can do the cogs of the law have already decided his fate & he'll have to deal with it.

i do'nt have too much sympathy for drunk drivers on a good day but i am sorry that he's gonna lose the life he's already established over it.

he should've had sense enough to realise this would happen & just stayed jail to serve out his debt to the community, now he's broken the law again & he'll have to build up a new life elsewhere

Thats right he should serve his time then out he goes and the goverment should start punishing them hard. Maybe they will get the message they cant get away with it. Princess I have no other way to contact you, But I have recieved some nasty email from your name. I dont think its you but just wanted to check and see.

now he should be given nationality,

wht kind a law is this? he was given sentense less than a year and he spend more then 20 years? and still he is being arrested?for what?

WHAT A COUNTRY?

and wht kind of person ur still asking wht would happend?I'll not be wondered if he will be given name of any muslim and called terriorst and execute him.

Get him back to mexico before he kills someone while driving drunk !! Driving drunk , driving with no headlights on ?? If he wants to live in America , he should have done it "LEGALLY" !! If he wants everything America has to offer , then we offer him justice , and send him back to mexico !!

Sounds like they've got it.

A crime is still a crime, no matter how much time has passed. And the last thing we need here is more drunk drivers, anyway.

A trial for any additional charges,conviction,serve his time,seize all his assets to help pay for his back taxes and the cost of his trial,time in prison and subsequent deportation.I'm sure that he must have acquired a few assets in his at least 20 years of illegality.He was driving a car ,right.Take everything he has and send his azz home.

We should send him back after he's finished doing his time, but send him to a Mexican prison so he can't come back.

Hi Princess, nice to see you back! They should send his butt back to where he came from!

Well, I think breaking out of prison should have a punishment in itself which 'finishing the term' of one year plus deportation ignores....since he was subject to both of those penalties BEFORE he broke out of prison. I think his jail term should be increased before deportation, at minimum.

Deportation and move him to the back of the line. He should be allowed to apply for immigration in 20 years - the time he spent here illegally.

SEND HIM to the BORDER!!! I would continue...but I would be deleted before You even had a chance to read it.

I admit that I am the imposter, Will you ever forgive me for all the nasty things I said and did?
I always wanted to be a princess, but mommy whipped me for wearing her underthings on my head, it warped me. The doctor says I will get better if I take my medicine. I dont like enemas


I admit that I am the imposter, Will you ever forgive me for all the nasty things I said and did?
I always wanted to be a princess, but mommy whipped me for wearing her underthings on my head, it warped me. The doctor says I will get better if I take my medicine. I dont like enemas

HI!