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By Lisa Finn (Patch Staff) – April 24, 2017
SOUTHAMPTON, NY — A man who fled to Guatemala after sexually abusing a female juvenile was extradited and arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday, police said.
The Southampton Town Police Department’s detective division arrested Augusto Cortez, 53, at JFK and charged him with first degree sexual abuse of a child, a felony, first degree criminal sexual act, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, police said.
Cortez, charged with sexually abusing a girl, 6, in Hampton Bays in 2014, fled the United States to South America after realizing he was a target of the investigation, police said.
He headed to several South American countries and was finally located in Guatemala by Interpol, police said.
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