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Nanes-Schnitzer Caught In Mexico
posted (January 27, 2017)
David Nanes Schnitzer, the Mexican Belizean Fugitive who cause the Government an international embarrassment, has been recaptured by Interpol. He's the Fraudster wanted in Mexico and the US who was caught in Belize, but skipped bail and fled the country.

Well, Mexican news outlets are reporting that he was picked up yesterday by Interpol at the Mexico City International Airport. Authorities say that he had arrived from Havana, Cuba. He was carrying travel documents, such as passports, driver's licenses and other official documents which identified him under another name. He has since been taken into custody until the Mexicans can prepare the proper documentation for a formal arrest.

Viewers will remember that over a year ago, back in November 2015, he was caught living on San Pedro when Belize police found something unusual with his driver's license. It was a fake, and it identified him as "David Banes", a Belizean. That's the name he had been living in Belize under for about 5 years. He also had an entire catalog of fraudulent documents including a permanent residency card, a Belizean passport, a driver's license for Belize City, a drivers license for San Pedro, a Social Security Card, a boat master's license, and for good measure, even a voter's ID. He had every type of identification that exists in Belize, all under that assumed name, basically changing the "N" in "Nanes" to "B", making it "Banes".

It took a combined effort of Belize police, working along with Mexican authorities and US Marshals, to capture him, and he was charged with only a single count of uttering upon a forged document for the fake Belize driver's license.

He was remanded to prison, where he was supposed to have stayed so that the papers for his extradition could be prepared. But, that never happened because he applied for Supreme Court Bail. It appears that the Judge was not convinced that this international fugitive was a flight risk, and he was granted bail of $10,000.

He was supposed to be reporting to police weekly, but he skipped out and fled immediately. Mexican authorities say that he was a major part of the Allen Standford Ponzi Scheme, which defrauded 3,500 Latin American investors of 42 million dollars. The entire ponzi scheme is reportedly estimated at 7 billion dollars.

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