Posted on 06/25/2016 9:09:20 AM PDT by nickcarraway
After escaping from authorities on two separate occasions, U.S. fugitive John Wesley Saatio won’t have a third chance to run free in Costa Rica.
Costa Rican Security Minister Gustavo Mata announced that Saatio will be extradited Saturday when authorities will put him on a commercial flight out of Juan Santamaría International Airport accompanied by U.S. Marshals.
Saatio was recaptured Tuesday in Desamparados, south of San José, after escaping through a ventilation duct in the immigration detention center in Hatillo where he had been held since June 3.
The 35-year-old fugitive from Michigan was initially aprehended by police in the popular Central Pacific beach town of Jacó earlier this month on an order from Interpol. Saatio faces a lengthy prison sentence in the U.S. for charges of home invasion, destruction of police property, and violating probation.
He escaped last year while police were transporting him to jail after his arraignment in Houghton, Michigan.
Great, if he’s coming back to Michigan I may have to supervise this idiot some day.
CC
This mutt is 35! Wow he’s led a hard life!
A Costa Rican Yooper? What’s his story?
Houghton Michigan is a world away from Costa Rica.
If He does get convicted I hope they put him in the one facility so far up in the UP that the Green Bay TV stations come in clear as a bell. The ones where the snow starts in late September. The one where the commute to work is done by snowmobiles.
CC
Shackle him with a 100 lb ball of lead. He wont get far.
My old SAC base Kincheloe near Sault St Marie / Kinross was allegedly turned into a correctional facility .... not sure but probably a low security facility . You know better than me on the current use if it is such.
Stay Safe !
Yeah. All the way over there.
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