Escaped Pulaski County inmate arrested in Missouri

Anael Castro-Hernandez
Anael Castro-Hernandez

The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed Tuesday that an inmate who in August escaped custody on his way to a hearing at the Pulaski County Courthouse has been arrested in Missouri.

Matt Cahill, an inspector with the U.S. Marshals Service in Kansas City, Kan., said Anael Castro-Hernandez, 30, was arrested around 1:30 p.m. at a job site in Independence, Mo.

Castro-Hernandez is being held in the Jackson County jail in Missouri, Cahill said.

Kevin Sanders, supervising deputy for the Little Rock office of the U.S. Marshals Service, said information was given to the service over the weekend about a possible location for Castro-Hernandez.

“We passed that information on to the Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., task force, and we established a good location on him,” he said.

On Aug. 25, Castro-Hernandez slipped out of his handcuffs and escaped authorities as a jail transport van was being unloaded outside of the courthouse at Markham and Broadway in downtown Little Rock.

Castro-Hernandez has been deported four times and twice convicted of illegal re-entry, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette previously reported. He's accused of sexually assaulting three girls ages 14, 13 and 10, and was arrested in May 2013 on accusations he repeatedly had sex with a 10-year-old girl, the Democrat-Gazette reported then.

Read Wednesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for more on this story.

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