A federal inmate who had been missing for almost a year is back behind bars after he tried to smuggle marijuana at the border fence in Hidalgo.
U.S. Border Patrol agents and National Guardsmen arrested 21-year-old Miguel Angel Gonzalez Jr. in a marijuana smuggling case late last week.
Authorities learned that Gonzalez was wanted in escaping from for federal custody back in December 2009.
Court records released Tuesday show that Gonzalez served three years in federal prison in a cocaine trafficking case.
He was released from a federal prison in Fort Worth and was supposed to report to a halfway house in Edinburg.
Gonzalez took a Greyhound bus and never made it to the halfway house.
It’s not clear where Gonzalez went but he had been wanted on federal escape charges until Thursday.
That’s when Border Patrol agents and National Guardsmen spotted Gonzalez and two other men scaling the border fence in Hidalgo.
A criminal complaint filed in the case shows that authorities found 114 pounds of marijuana at the scene.
Gonzalez appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dorina Ramos in McAllen on Monday.
Court records shows that Gonzalez is an American citizen.
Judge Ramos denied bond for Gonzalez until a Thursday morning hearing.
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