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Third 'Most Wanted' Child Support Suspect Arrested
POSTED: 10:47 am PDT March 26,
2008
UPDATED: 1:55 pm PDT March 26,
2008
LOS ANGELES -- A third man alleged to be one of Los Angeles County's 10 "most wanted" child support-payment evaders was arrested within a week of his photo being posted as part of a program to track down the county's most egregious offenders, authorities said Wednesday.
Abdoul R. Sesay, who allegedly owes $427,000, was arrested Tuesday at an apartment in Marina del Rey after three years on the lam, according to county officials.The amount he owes is larger than that of any of the other 10 most wanted. After booking, he was released, put on probation for 36 months and ordered to come up with $20,000 by May 1. If he is unable to pay the lump sum, Sesay will go back to jail for 90 days, said David Sommers, aide to county Supervisor Don Knabe. Sesay's monthly payments will be are $1,695, Sommers said.
Sesay was targeted by a county program that uses wanted posters modeled on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.The posters, which are going up countywide, feature men who have displayed "patterns of behavior that have gone to extremes to avoid child support payments," Sommers said.Together, they owe more than $2 million in child support for 17 children. No women made the top 10, but some are wanted for failure to pay child support, county officials said.Sesay was the third person on the list to be netted.The first, Michael W. Davis, was arrested before the formal announcement of the program was made, and the second, Michael Lee, surrendered one day after his photo was circulated, saying that he was shaken and shamed by the publicity, according to Wayne D. Dross, chief of the county Child Support Services Criminal Prosecution Division.The 10 most wanted list is part of a larger program launched in December that uses $500,000 of county funds, procured by Supervisor Don Knabe, to pay for district attorney's investigators to track down and arrest child support evaders.As of Tuesday, the investigators have arrested 70 evaders since Dec. 4 and cited 76 others. Along with six others captured incidentally by law enforcement agents and 35 who surrendered voluntarily, 187 of the 1,240 outstanding warrants for child-support evaders countywide have been cleared.Previous Stories:
Abdoul R. Sesay, who allegedly owes $427,000, was arrested Tuesday at an apartment in Marina del Rey after three years on the lam, according to county officials.The amount he owes is larger than that of any of the other 10 most wanted. After booking, he was released, put on probation for 36 months and ordered to come up with $20,000 by May 1. If he is unable to pay the lump sum, Sesay will go back to jail for 90 days, said David Sommers, aide to county Supervisor Don Knabe. Sesay's monthly payments will be are $1,695, Sommers said.
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