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Nov 15, 2007

U.S. Army fugitive sent back to States

Story PictureAnother U.S fugitive has been sent back to Uncle Sam, this time as part of that country’s system of military justice. Thirty-seven year old Matthew Anderson, working in Belize as a physical therapist at the K.H.M.H. was this morning taken into custody by police on the strength of a warrant issued by the U.S government. On June first Anderson, a physical therapy technician in a U.S Army clinic, was convicted of three counts of sexual assault and two counts of dereliction of duty in a general court-martial proceeding. He was dishonourably discharged and sentenced to two years in jail but fled before his incarceration. He was ordered expelled from Belize and this afternoon put on a plane to Houston where M.P.’s were waiting to greet him.


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