MAX GIAN ALCADE - 7 yo (2008) - Boise ID

Boise ID ---- Officials with the FBI say a child reported missing from Idaho in
2008 has been found with his non-custodial mother in Nicaragua.
Max Gian Alcade was 7 when he was reported missing by his father in
December 2008. His father told police that his ex-wife - the child's
mother - had picked the boy up at school and then didn't return him
after the holiday as planned.
The FBI says agents worked with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau
of Diplomatic Security in Managua, Nicaragua to find the boy and his
mother, Margaret Sanchez Mejia Dunbar Alcade, late last month. Max Gian
Alcade has since been reunited with his dad, and officials say his
mother has returned to the United States under the custody of law
enforcement agents. She is charged in Idaho with second-degree
kidnapping.

The FBI Salt Lake City Division's Boise Office, the U.S. Department
of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Boise Police Department
announce that Max Gian Alcalde has been found in Nicaragua. He was
reported missing in December 2008. His mother, Margaret Sanchez Mejia
Dunbar Alcalde, was escorted back to the U.S. by FBI personnel and is in
custody. She is charged in Ada County, Idaho with kidnapping in the
second degree, a felony (Idaho code 18-4501(2)).

The charges stem from a Boise Police investigation of child custody
interference. Also, the FBI had obtained a federal warrant for Sanchez
Mejia Dunbar Alcalde for Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. The
process is now underway to return Sanchez Mejia Dunbar Alcalde to Idaho.
Max Gian Alcalde has been reunited with his father.

On March 26, 2010 with newly developed information, the FBI contacted
the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) in
Managua, Nicaragua for assistance. DS personnel at its Regional Security
Office in Managua, working in conjunction with the Nicaraguan National
Police, traveled to Chinandega where they located Max Gian Alcalde and
his non-custodial mother, Margaret Sanchez Mejia Dunbar Alcalde.

As a result, the child was successfully reunited with his father in
Managua with the assistance of the FBI Legat in Panama, DS's Regional
Security Office, and American Citizen Services Unit of the Embassy.
Margaret Alcalde agreed to return voluntarily to the United States to
face arrest and prosecution.

"With agents in 285 U.S. diplomatic missions around the world,
Diplomatic Security is uniquely positioned to help overseas law
enforcement locate, pursue, and apprehend fugitives," said Jeffrey W.
Culver, Director of the Diplomatic Security Service. "With today's
announcement, Diplomatic Security sends a strong message to criminals
like Margaret Alcade: there is no safe harbor outside the United
States."

Because the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service is
the most widely represented law enforcement organization in the world,
DSS's capability to track and capture fugitives who have fled U.S.
jurisdiction to avoid prosecution is unmatched. During 2009, DSS
assisted in the resolution of 136 international fugitive cases.

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security is the U.S. Department of State's
law enforcement and security arm. The special agents, engineers, and
security professionals of the Bureau are responsible for the security of
285 U.S. diplomatic missions around the world. In the United States,
Diplomatic Security personnel protect the U.S. Secretary of State and
high-ranking foreign dignitaries and officials visiting the United
States, investigate passport and visa fraud, and conduct personnel
security investigations. More information about the U.S. Department of
State and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security may be obtained at www.state.gov/m/ds.

"The successful outcome of this matter reflects the tireless work on
behalf of the FBI divisions here in the United States and abroad over
the course of the last year," said John H. Morton, Supervisory Special
Agent in the Boise, Idaho Resident Agency. The FBI acknowledges that a
number of agencies collaborated in the apprehension of Sanchez Mejia
Dunbar Alcalde and the safe recovery of Max Gain Alcalde. These agencies
include the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security,
The United States Attorney's Office-District of Idaho, FBI Boise, FBI
Legal Attache Panama, FBI Houston and the Boise Idaho Police Department.
A special thanks to the Nicaraguan National Police for their assistance
in this matter.

Source: U.S. Department of State