Clarence Michael Ransom, 52, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, has
been charged in a federal criminal complaint with two counts of international
parental kidnapping and one count of failure to report international travel as
a sex offender.
Ransom was arrested in Mexico by Mexican authorities on
Sunday and was returned to the United States, where the U.S. Marshals Service
took custody of him Tuesday.
Ransom is accused in an FBI criminal complaint of taking his
3- and 4-year-old sons to Mexico in October, allegedly in violation of a
custody agreement he signed with the children’s mother.
The boys have been recovered and are safe.
Ransom is expected to have an initial appearance in U.S.
District Court in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday.
Mexican law enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service; U.S.
Attorney’s Office; the FBI Legal Attache in Tijuana, Mexico; the Las Cruces
Police Department; and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
assisted with the investigation.
The public is reminded all defendants are considered
innocent unless convicted in a court of law.
(The FBI does not release mugshots of defendants.)
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