A former Army captain who was on the run for almost five years after fleeing a court-martial for sexually abusing his daughter was found hiding at his mother’s house last week.

Christopher Wilkinson, once an intelligence officer at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, was arrested by a U.S. Marshals Service task force on Sept. 18, according to a press release shared with Task & Purpose by the law enforcement agency.

Wilkinson had been on the run since his command granted him leave in January 2021, just weeks before he was expected to face a court-martial. He was granted leave, according to court records, “based in part on his history of professionalism and timeliness.”

He instead fled, leading to a yearslong manhunt that ended in rural Illinois, where investigators spotted Wilkinson’s blue 1963 Chev

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