Homeland Security says 'viable lead' launched operation to rescue missing Allentown teen
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-pol-kevin-esterly-arrest-in-mexico-details-20180321-story.html
Joint operation by U.S. and Mexican authorities to capture a married man and a 16-year-old Allentown girl came together quickly Saturday morning after a tipster reported the two were staying in an apartment near Cancun,
Twelve days after Kevin Esterly, 45, of Lowhill Township, and A. Y., a high school sophomore, fled to Mexico, federal authorities received what they believed to be a “viable lead” and “launched an operation to rescue Y.,” Homeland Security officials said in a statement.
Teaming up, investigators with Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service and Mexican federal police set up surveillance Saturday morning in Puerto Morelos, a resort town south of Cancun, and kept watch on the apartment,
Esterly was deported to Miami on immigration violations, where he waived extradition and agreed to return to Lehigh County to face a felony count of interfering with the custody of a child.
Allentown police would have 15 days to pick him up, and if they did not do so, he would be released.
Court records in Florida list a second extradition hearing for April 3, which may be in the event that Esterly is not picked up by Allentown or Lehigh County authorities.