scanrail/iStock/Thinkstock(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins, who was discovered last month in a rural California cabin with 15-year-old student Elizabeth Thomas after a month on the run, is in the process of being transferred to Tennessee from California, ABC News has confirmed.
Cummins, 50 — accused of abducting Thomas — is facing kidnapping and sex crime charges in Tennessee.
Assistant federal defender Ben Galloway, based in Sacramento, California, told ABC News Wednesday, “I can confirm that he left at about 7:30 on Tuesday evening.
I don’t have details about his travel — that information is generally not disclosed.”
But he added, “I can only tell you what we have seen in other cases: that the U.S. Marshals transport detainees by bus and plane through county jails, private correctional facilities, and often through the federal transfer center in Oklahoma City.
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When asked what Cummins’ ETA in Tennessee may be, Galloway said, “He will appear in court in Tennessee shortly after his arrival there. I don’t know when that will occur.”
Galloway also clarified an erroneous report that described the movement as an extradition. “There was no extradition,” he said. “Instead it was a transfer from one federal district to another.”
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