RALEIGH, N.C. -- A man charged with the 1994 killing of a child in Raleigh has been arrested in Haiti.

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Federal court documents filed Wednesday show that Maxine Edmond Pardo was arrested over the weekend by Haitian officers in the town of Petionville. He is a native of Haiti who became a U.S. citizen in 1989.

 

Authorities in Raleigh charged Pardo in 1996 with murder in the death of a young boy who died in Raleigh in December 1994.

 

The federal affidavit said the 44-year-old was issued a new Haitian passport in August 2002 under the name of Leopold Garcia Pardo.

 

The U.S. Marshals Service filed a criminal complaint Wednesday against Pardo, also charging him with willfully fleeing to avoid prosecution.

 

It was not immediately where Pardo was Wednesday, and messages left with police in Raleigh and the U.S. Marshals Service were not immediately returned.