A 21-year-old Seymour man who police and prosecutors said fled to Canada to avoid jail for robbing a man at an ATM is back behind bars in the U.S.
Seymour police re-arrested Daniel Szleszynski Thursday after U.S. Marshals from New Haven accompanied him back to Connecticut.
Szleszynski and his friend Casey Hyman used a pellet gun to rob a man of $100 as the victim used a Bank of America ATM in Seymour on May 31, 2010.
Hyman was sentenced to 18 years in prison — suspended after he serves seven — for the ATM robbery and other crimes.
Szleszynski had pleaded guilty under a deal brokered with prosecutors — but fled to Canada before being sentenced.
That original agreement is now out the window and Szleszynski, who is already on probation for a narcotics conviction, is probably facing a longer prison sentence.
A judge ordered Szleszynski’s re-arrest in January, when he skipped a court appearance.
In March, Seymour police were told he had been arrested by Canadian authorities. The charges there weren’t specified.
Seymour police told Superior Court prosecutors, who made arrangements to have Szleszynski flown back to the U.S.
Seymour detectives met him and the Marshals at Bradley International Airport and charged Szleszynski with first-degree failure to appear, first-degree robbery and first-degree conspiracy to commit robbery.
He is being held on a $1 million bond pending a future court date.
