CAPTURE REPORT

June 14, 2001

We profiled him once and we were just about ready to profile him again. But when accused sex offender Monty Boston heard through relatives that his face would once again appear on America's Most Wanted, cops say the pressure was just too much. He decided to turn himself in. On Thursday, June 14, 2001, the escaped prisoner surrendered himself to federal authorities at San Diego-Tijuana border.

Monty Boston had been behind bars in Jerome County, Idaho awaiting trial on charges of sexual abuse of a child and misdemeanor battery. In November 2000, he masterminded an escape sheme involving two other inmates. They beat a veteran guard nearly to death and escaped. Two of the inmates turned themselves in, but Boston fled. It is believed that he originally hid out in California where his 15-year-old girlfriend came to visit him. During that visit, the girlfriend became pregnant. When she returned home to Idaho, her father (whom Boston once tried to strangle), decided his daughter should cooperate with police at all costs. She has not been charged with any crime.

In December 2000, Boston was profiled on America’s Most Wanted, but nothing of substance came from our feature. Then in late May, in preparation for another airing, our show interviewed the pregnant girlfriend, her father and the prison guard who amazingly survived. Cops say that Boston’s relatives informed him that he would be on television again. He was in Guadalajara when cops say Boston decided it wasn’t worth “looking over his shoulder” all the time. He then surrendered without incident at the border.

Boston now faces additional charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, battery of an officer, and failure to appear. He will be transported from San Diego County where he is being held, back to Jerome County, Idaho where he will stand trial.