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  • As of Thursday afternoon, Jean-Michel Beaulieu was still in federal custody at a Vermont state prison.

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  • By Benjamin Paulin
    The Enterprise
    Posted May. 30, 2014 @ 2:11 am
    Updated at 2:21 AM

    BROCKTON – When asked about the status of Jean-Michel Beaulieu a fugitive from justice in Massachusetts, a U.S. Border Patrol Agency spokesman also shed some light as to what happens when a person is accused of a crime and attempts to leave the country.

    Stephen Sapp, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokesman, told The Enterprise on Thursday that Beaulieu was wanted for homicide in Brockton when he was arrested at the border and remains in federal custody at a Vermont state prison.

    He then broke down the procedure for tracking such a fugitive:
    Once an arrest warrant is issued by a U.S. law enforcement agency, the information is entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), Sapp said.

    The NCIC is a computerized database maintained and operated by the FBI.

    “All law enforcement agencies have access to that,”     Sapp said.

    When a person tries to cross the border to leave the country, they are asked for a passport or personal identification information.

    If they are in the NCIC, they will be flagged and brought to secondary inspection station.

    “They’re moved to another area where they can be verified and inspected,” Sapp said. “Once we get the information that he is wanted we immediately contact the jurisdiction that has that record and see if they want them.”

    Border Patrol agents will contact the law enforcement agency that issued the warrant and ask if officials there would like to extradite the fugitive.

    “In the meantime, we will put them in a cell, handcuff them to a chair or put them in a holding room,” Sapp said.

    If the law enforcement agency says they would like to extradite the fugitive, they either work with that law enforcement agency to have the person released into its custody or the fugitive will waive their right to extradition.

    Beaulieu, 42, is the estranged husband of Florence Beaulieu of Brockron, a slain mother of four. Florence Beaulieu was found dead in her apartment on Forest Avenue in Brockton on May 16.

    Jean-Michel Beaulieu, was taken into custody one day later trying to cross the Canadian border in Highgate, Vermont. He waived his right to extradition May 19, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department. He has been available since then to be picked up by authorities from Massachusetts, although 10 days later he remained in custody at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton, Vermont.

    Massachusetts authorities have not yet said whether Beaulieu will be charged in his wife’s murder.

    Bridget Norton Middleton, spokeswoman for Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz’s office, said in a press release Wednesday that Beaulieu was charged with being a fugitive from justice on three counts of violating a restraining order. She said he would be arraigned “at a later date.”

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