ONE OF WISCONSIN’S TEN-MOST-WANTED CRIMINALS was brought to the Harris County courthouse in Houston, Texas, yesterday in an ambulance for an extradition hearing.

Judge Ross hears Timoth Riley’s plea
in the ambulance behind the courthouse.
Houston Chronicle photo

Timothy Riley, 46, was a fugitive from justice after violating his parole following a conviction for aggravated sexual assault of a child.  He fled to Mexico where he had some abdominal surgeries for an unknown ailment.  After three botched surgeries, he desparately flew to Houston where he checked in to Ben Taub General Hospital for remedial treatment.  A routine background check exposed him as a fugitive.

From there he was brought to the courthouse where Judge Sherman Ross along with the county attorney and Riley’s court-appointed lawyer crowded into the ambulance parked in the secure loading dock.  During the brief hearing Riley agreed to waive extradition and be returned to Wisconsin to face the charges against him.

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