PRISONER Steve R. Aguon was captured by members of the Department of Public Safety’s Tactical Response Enforcement Team in a Kannat Tabla banana plantation on Friday night, according to DPS yesterday.
Acting DPS spokeswoman Rose Ada said the TRET officers found Aguon at 8:30 p.m. in the family compound.
Ada said no gunshot was fired as Aguon cooperated with the TRET officers.
“The TRET team was there, apparently they were staking out the area. They received words that Aguon might be coming back to the family residence so they stayed and saw him,” Ada said.
Aguon is facing escape charges, she added.
Aguon escaped from custody on Wednesday afternoon while attending a funeral wake for his grandfather.
Last December, the Superior Court ordered Aguon to spend five years in jail without the possibility of parole for the killing of garment worker Welly Tosie.
Aguon pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the death of Tosie, whom he struck with a baseball bat during a fight along a road in Kannat Tabla on Feb. 3, 2001.
In other news, Ada said Joseph Diaz Sablan remained a fugitive from justice as of yesterday morning.
Ada said police officers were still looking for the 29-year-old Sablan.
“Anyone found harboring Sablan will be charged with a felony for harboring a fugitive as well as aiding and abetting,” she said.
Sablan was convicted last May 10 of oral copulation and sexual abuse of a child.
