Crime & Safety
Woman Appears In Oakland Court After 20 Years As Fugitive, Extradition From Singapore
Twenty years later, authorities in Singapore alerted U.S. authorities that they had located the Chens there and had arrested them.
November 22, 2022
A woman who had been a fugitive since 2002 made her first court appearance Monday after failing to appear at her sentencing hearing two decades ago, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Voni Chen, 57, of Taiwan, was charged with multiple counts of mail fraud in 2000 along with her father, Richard Chen, 87. Each pleaded guilty to mail fraud in October 2001 but failed to appear at their sentencing hearings in May 2002.
Twenty years later, authorities in Singapore alerted U.S. authorities that they had located the Chens there and had arrested them. The pair was extradited and Voni finally appeared before a judge.
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