TV Show Accidentally Leads to Man’s Arrest
A Los Angeles man sought on charges of abducting his 13-year-old daughter was arrested a month after a TV program featured a similar case, the FBI said.
Guillermo E. Bonilla was arrested at his home in Point Roberts, Wash., Friday for investigation of two counts of using a false Social Security number, an FBI statement said.
Bonilla lived five years in Point Roberts as Robert William Kelly.
An “Unsolved Mysteries” episode shown Nov. 21 covered a 1983 Montana kidnaping. School officials in Tsawwassen, Canada, north of Point Roberts, thought they recognized the victim as Bonilla’s daughter.
Bonilla’s daughter was not the one involved in the Montana case but had been reported missing in the Los Angeles area in 1983, the statement said.
She was found in Bonilla’s house last week and placed with Child Protective Services pending a reunion with her mother in California.
Bonilla was scheduled for arraignment Wednesday on federal Social Security charges in Seattle. He faces extradition on child detention charges.
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