A person convicted of sexual offences involving a minor in Arizona has been arrested in Newfoundland, after being on the run for greater than a decade.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed in an announcement that they arrested Robert Andrew Land in Carbonear on Friday.
Earlier that day, Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Raymond Whalen issued an arrest warrant for the 62-year-old Land, pursuant to the Extradition Act.
In line with the RCMP, the U.S. Marshals had made a request to Canadian authorities for Land’s arrest.
The Mounties say that Land is needed in the US for violating probation circumstances in relation to his conviction on sexual offences involving a minor.
In line with a discover posted on-line by the U.S. Marshals, Land had been a fugitive since 2013.
The U.S. Marshals declined remark when contacted by CBC Information on Tuesday morning, saying it is their coverage to not talk about fugitive extraditions, deportations or removals till they have been accomplished.
Land briefly appeared at provincial courtroom in Harbour Grace on Tuesday afternoon.
Land instructed the courtroom he plans to signify himself.
The matter is being moved to Supreme Court docket in St. John’s for a listening to Wednesday afternoon.
In line with a prison courtroom case historical past posted on the Maricopa County Superior Court docket web site, Land was charged with a collection of sexual offences in 2004.
A yr later, he pleaded responsible to 2 counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one rely of sexual abuse. A half-dozen different fees had been dismissed as a part of a plea deal.
That case historical past doesn’t present particulars of his sentence. CBC Information has requested that data from courtroom officers.
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