Brazilian Police Arrest U.S. Citizen Wanted for Abduction and Murder

On March 9, 2005, Brazilian police arrested Jesse James Hollywood, a U.S. citizen, whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation sought concerning a high-profile kidnapping and murder of a 15-year-old boy in Southern California five years ago. The police detained Hollywood in Saquarmea, a beach resort town north of Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian government was expected to deport Hollywood to the U.S. to face charges for his suspected role in the abduction and killing of Nicholas Samuel Markowitz, whose body was found on August 12, 2000 in Santa Barbara. Hollywood, 25, had been living in Brazil for four years, where he used a fake name and taught English. The Hollywood case illustrates that the U.S. often asks the country in which a U.S. citizen fugitive is located to deport the person after the U.S. has revoked his passport and informed the country the person is there illegally...[more]