Crime & Safety
Smoking Could Get Sex Offender Sent Back To Puerto Rico
A 28-year-old man with a warrant out for his arrest wasn't exactly to stay under cover.
BOSTON, MA — A sex offender could be on his way back to Puerto Rico after being caught smoking a cigarette inside the MBTA's Chinatown station.
Transit Police said that on Sunday around 10;30 a.m. patrol officers noticed a man who would be later identified as 28-year-old Jonathan Santiago. Santiago was smoking inside the station near the south entrance.
Officers approached to give Santiago a citation and discovered her was wanted in Ponce, Puerto Rico for failure to register as a sex offender. Transit Police confirmed with Puerto Rican authorities the warrant was extraditable.
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Santiago was arrested for being a fugitive from justice.
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