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Published Saturday?February 18, 2006
Fugitive swindler is arrested in Mexico
BY STEVE JORDON
 

WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
John Brentley Chancellor "Chance" Reynolds, whose seven-year flight from federal prison took him and his family to Belize, Guatemala and the mountains of Mexico, was arrested Friday and was on his way back to the United States.

 
John Brentley Chancellor "Chance" Reynolds walked away from a federal prison camp in 1999.
In the mid-1990s, Reynolds cheated lenders to his cattle operation near Custer, S.D., including Omaha's Farm Credit Services of America, out of about $8 million.
Reynolds had been missing since March 1999, when he walked away from a federal prison camp at Florence, Colo. His wife and their three daughters disappeared at the same time.
Friday, U.S. Deputy Marshal Jose Chavarria, stationed in Mexico City, and Mexican authorities went to a residence in south-central Mexico where Reynolds was believed to be living, said Ken Deal, chief deputy of the U.S. Marshals Service in Denver.
"They waited for him to show up, and apparently he drove up with his wife," Deal said.
Mexican authorities took Reynolds into custody without incident, Deal said, and took him to the airport in nearby Guadalajara for a flight to Los Angeles or Houston, accompanied by Chavarria and a Mexican immigration officer.
Deal said Reynolds, 52, may be turned over to U.S. prison authorities because about five years remain on the seven-year prison term he received in 1997.
He pleaded guilty to defrauding banks through his ranch in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Deal said Reynolds also faces a five-year sentence for escaping from prison. Authorities are investigating whether his wife, Celina Neteri Reynolds, should be charged with aiding and abetting his escape.
Celina Neteri Reynolds, who is not charged with a crime in the United States, was able to drive away from the arrest scene, Deal said, but local authorities know where she lives with two of their daughters, Hallie, about 19, and Annie, about 14. The oldest, Rachel, would be about 22.
"If she was involved in a crime, yes, we do want her back in the United States and we will investigate that," Deal said. "Unfortunately, the girls may have just been unintended victims in all this."
"My Lord!" said Celina Reynolds' sister, Dodie McVeety of Corrales, N.M., upon hearing of his capture.
She said family members have been worried about the girls and had not heard from the family since the escape.
Had Reynolds not escaped in 1999, Deal said, he could have completed his prison sentence by now and rejoined his wife as a free man. "Now there's that cloud of something happening to her," Deal said.
Reynolds' scheme involved borrowing money for land and cattle. Instead of buying cattle, much of the money went for travel and a lavish lifestyle.
Officials said Reynolds was a con man who played the role of Western cattle rancher.
After a 1999 World-Herald story about Reynolds, Charles Sargent Jr. of Broken Bow, Neb., reported that he had hired the Reynolds family to oversee an orange and pineapple grove in Belize, in Central America.
Sargent said that when he tried to persuade Reynolds to give himself up, the family disappeared again, along with about $4,500 in cash from the orange grove.
Authorities believe they fled to Guatemala, but by 2003 they were near San Miguel de Allende, a town of about 80,000 in mountainous central Mexico. There he had a run-in with a U.S. expatriate who accused him of stealing $25,000 in a scheme to start a horseback riding academy.
Deal said Friday that authorities nearly captured Reynolds in Belize, Guatemala and San Miguel, but the trail had been cold since 2003.
While many expatriates try to blend in, Deal said, Reynolds and his family stood out and were noticed by others who knew of the case. Word reached U.S. deputies in Mexico City, who traced his whereabouts.



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