Costa Rican authorities arrested a fugitive Texas nurse in San Isidro de Heredia, north of San José, Wednesday afternoon whom authorities have been trying to pinpoint for seven years on international parental kidnapping charges.
Chere Lyn Tomayko fled Texas in May of 1999, just six months after a Texas district court judge decided she and her boyfriend would have joint custody of their daughter, Alexandria Camille Cyprian, and that Cyprian would live in Tarrant County, Texas, according to a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report on Tomayko.
Three years after Tomayko left the United States for Costa Rica with Cyprian, now 18, and her other daughter, she was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in Texas.
Based on information from an investigation by the international police agency Interpol, Costa Rican National Police stopped Tomayko in San Isidro de Heredia while she was driving with a minor authorities estimated to be 5 years old. It's not immediately clear whether the child is Tomayko's, nor did authorities indicate whether they know of Cyprian's location.
Tomayko has been living in Costa Rica for a decade and had been working as an English teacher in Heredia, where she also had her own horse ranch. Costa Rican authorities are now processing her to be deported.
Tomayko is the fourth U.S. fugitive Costa Rican authorities have caught in the past month. Authorities also arrested a storied Alabama outdoorsman at gunpoint in the central Pacific town of Herradura, a man who allegedly conspired to kill his ex-girlfriend while in jail then fled to Costa Rica and got a job at a San José travel agency and a man in the central Pacific town of Jacó wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly growing marijuana. |
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