ORANGE COUNTY (CA)
KTLA5
August 13, 2018
By Tracy Bloom, Chip Yost, and Mary Beth McDade
An Orange County man who authorities say fled the country more than a decade ago after being charged with sexually assaulting a choir boy over a four-year period has been extradited back to the U.S., authorities said Monday.
The announcement came the same day that the accused child molester, 43-year-old Roger Alan Giese, made his first court appearance in Santa Ana since returning to California.
He was scheduled to be arraigned on the bench warrant for his arrest, but the arraignment was continued until later this month.
Giese is being held on $60 million bail, jail records showed.
“The return of Mr. Giese to the United States after more than a decade is an example of the FBI’s commitment to returning fugitives accused of state crimes to local jurisdictions where they face prosecution regardless of how much time has passed,” Paul Delacourt, the assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, said in a news release.
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