A 45-year-old man wanted for nearly four years in Georgia in connection with a series of sex crimes against a minor was in custody today in Los Angeles after being deported from Mexico, police said.
Kenneth Dustin Grant, the subject of a felony arrest warrant out of Forsyth County, Georgia, since September 2010, when he failed to appear for trial, was arrested Friday at Los Angeles International Airport by Los Angeles police officers assigned to the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
“Grant is facing up to 23 felony counts, including aggravated child molestation, aggravated sexual battery, child molestation, and exploitation of children,” according to an LAPD statement.
Grant cut off his electronic ankle monitor and fled Georgia, police said.
The Marshals Service learned that Grant had escaped to Mexico, prompting the Fugitive Task Force to work with Mexican authorities in locating him, according to the LAPD.
He was apprehended on Thursday in Guadalajara, Mexico, deported to the U.S. and detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel and Los Angeles police.
Grant was booked Friday into the Metropolitan Detention Center on a no-bail fugitive warrant and is awaiting extradition back to Georgia, police said.
