Fugitive Former Pastor Brought Back to NJ for Sentencing

The Trentonian
December 23, 2016

http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20161223/fugitive-former-pastor-brought-back-to-nj-for-sentencing

A former New Jersey church pastor will be sentenced on sexual assault charges nearly two years after he fled the country following his conviction in February 2015.

Forty-nine-year-old Gregorio Martinez is set to be sentenced Friday in Hudson County Superior Court on charges of aggravated criminal sexual contact, endangering the welfare of a child and child abuse.

Martinez, once a Pentecostal preacher in Jersey City, was found guilty of molesting a 13-year-old boy he got to know through a church in North Bergen.

Prosecutors say Martinez skipped a pre-sentencing interview and fled to Nicaragua. He was apprehended in Honduras last week and brought back to New Jersey on Thursday.

Martinez is facing additional charges after three 19-year-old men also accused of him of sexual assault following his initial conviction.