Thursday, March 31, 2011

43-year-old Robert Tutokey was arrested Tuesday at his residence in Mesa. He allegedly helped Paul Merle Eischeid, one of the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives, escape the country.



43-year-old Robert Tutokey was arrested Tuesday at his residence in Mesa. He allegedly helped Paul Merle Eischeid, one of the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives, escape the country.

Tutokey has been charged with misuse of a passport, and providing false statements in application and use of a passport.

Officials allege that Tutokey obtained a passport in his name and allowed Eischeid to use it when fleeing the country in 2004.

Eischeid was wanted in the 2001 murder of a Phoenix woman. The Hells Angels member is also accused of drug trafficking and violating the RICO statutes.

10 years ago, Cynthia Garcia was attacked and severely beaten while attending a party at the Hells Angels clubhouse in Mesa, Ariz. She was thrown in the trunk of a car, taken to the desert, stabbed and left for dead.

Eischeid was indicted on drug trafficking, RICO violations, kidnapping, and murder charges, along with several additional Hells Angels members.

He was arrested in 2003, and due to his career as a Charles Schwab stockbroker and relatively clean criminal record, he was released on his own recognizance and put on house arrest.

But Eischeid removed his monitoring device and fled Arizona.

In 2007, U.S. Marshals added him to the 15 Most Wanted List.

Eischeid was apprehended in Buenos Aires in February. He is currently in custody in Argentina pending extradition to the United States.