Fugitive Educators Suspected Of Molestation Nabbed After 17 Years

LOS ANGELES, CA — A man and woman suspected by Los Angeles police of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a school camping trip have been caught in Florida shortly after the case was featured on a television program, police said Thursday.

The investigation was begun by the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division on May 4, 2000, officials said.

"The sexual assault was discovered when students attending a school camping trip noticed that another student had slept in the same room with two adults," according to an LAPD statement.

"The victim told several students that she was sexually involved with both adults. The suspects were identified as 43-year-old Channel Nicola Warren of Los Angeles and 52-year-old Joseph Horace Green of Lancaster, California. Green is a registered sex offender. Felony sexual assault warrants were issued for both suspects."

The case was featured on the Sept. 24 episode of CNN's "The Hunt with John Walsh: School of Lies."

"Shortly thereafter, investigators discovered that the suspects had taken up residency in Florida under false names," police said.

Both suspects were arrested in Plantation, Florida, on Wednesday by the FBI's South Florida Fugitive and Violent Crimes Task Force and LAPD Robbery- Homicide Division detectives and are awaiting extradition to Los Angeles.

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