A Georgia man who fled Cherokee County with his three children while facing charges after a domestic dispute was arrested Friday in Hawaii, authorities said.
Willie Alfred Green was charged in May with criminal trespass, battery and making terroristic threats, Cherokee County sheriff’s spokesman Howard J. Baker said Saturday.
Green was out on bond when he dismantled a monitoring ankle bracelet and became a fugitive, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Jim Joyner, supervisor with the U.S. Marshals Southeast regional task force, said Green faces additional charges of child endangerment in Orange County, Calif.
Green and “the original victim of the charge up in Cherokee were together in Orange County with the children,” Joyner said. “And he took the children and left there without her.”
Marshals agents and the Honolulu Police Department arrested Green at an apartment complex. The three children, who had been reported missing, were with him, authorities said. The children, ages 1, 7 and 8, were turned over to child protective services.
An extradition hearing for Green has not been scheduled.
A U.S. Marshals Task Force in Georgia tracked Green to Hawaii, and he was taken into custody without incident, Mauinow.com reported.
Joyner said the task force developed information about Green’s disappearance that led the hunt to Hawaii.
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