Fugitive Lessons
There was plenty of time to debrief Wesley on his “ride” back to the East Coast. The agents were able to learn some details of our fugitive's life on the run. After the indictment, he left the U.S. and returned to his native homeland, China. That was a great choice for him, considering the U.S. doesn't have very good extradition treaties with them. Even if the U.S. authorities had known where he had been, which they hadn't, there was basically zero chance that they could convince the Chinese to arrest him and send him back to be tried. There was not enough trust yet on the country-to-country level to allow this to happen.
He stayed in his home country for a few years, but could not resist the temptation to come back. We don't ...
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