FUGITIVE FROM BRAZIL RETURNED TO UNITED STATES TO FACE UTAH
SEXUAL ABUSE OF A MINOR CHARGES
Special
Agent-In-Charge Timothy J. Fuhrman, Salt Lake City Field Office of the
FBI, and Sheriff James O. Tracy, Utah County Sheriff’s
Office, announced that on July 5, 2006, an Agent from the FBI escorted
T.M. YOUNG, 49, a former resident of Springville, Utah, back to the United
States from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. YOUNG had remained a fugitive since
August of 2001 when he failed to appear at a court date.
YOUNG
was formally arrested by the FBI and the Miami-Dade Police Department
on an outstanding federal warrant for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution
(UFAP) upon his plane’s landing in Miami, Florida on July 6,
2006. This federal warrant was issued by the United States District
Court, District of Utah, on October 30, 2001. The UFAP warrant was
based on two counts of forcible sexual abuse of a minor, with which
YOUNG has been charged in the Fourth District Judicial Court in Utah
County, Utah. The charged conduct allegedly occurred in June and July
of 2001.
The underlying
crimes with which YOUNG is charged are punishable by not less than
one year and no more than fifteen years in prison for each count. Deputies
from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office are coordinating
with the Miami-Dade Police Department for YOUNG’S return to Utah
to face these charges.
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