He is not in anybodys custody at the moment, he has not been charged with anything to do with Jon Benet,
this was the fastest way to get him back to the US, the Thai authorites deported him as an undesirable, so until he lands in California he can live it up a little,
when he gets on US soil he will be taken into custody, I think to give the Boulder DA more time to get her evidence he will be arrested for the misdemeanour child











offences,
thus California can hold onto him, until and if the DA in Boulder decides to arrest him and take him to Boulder,
he also may not waive extradition to Boulder, so she will have to get an extradition order, who knows what he will do,
but Boulder need time to check out DNA, his alibi, etc in order to decide how to proceed,