RALEIGH, N.C. — A man charged with killing his 2-year-old son in 1994 has been arrested in Haiti, more than a decade after leaving Raleigh and assuming a different name, investigators said Wednesday.

Federal marshals, with the help of the U.S. State Department, tracked Maxine Edmond Pardo to his native Haiti, officials said. Local authorities arrested him over the weekend in the town of Petionville on the outskirts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince - Pardo’s birthplace.

Bryan Konig, a deputy U.S. marshal in North Carolina, said authorities began looking for Pardo in Haiti after he was issued a passport there in 2002. Court documents say the 44-year-old got a new Haitian passport in August of that year under the name of Leopold Garcia Pardo. The birthday on the passport application was identical, and investigators said the passport photo confirmed his identity.

“The similarity of the information led us to believe it was him,” Konig said. “We really started concentrating on Haiti around that time frame.”

Authorities in Raleigh charged Pardo in 1996 with murder in the death of his young boy, who died in Raleigh in December 1994 from injuries caused by shaking. Raleigh police did not return phone calls seeking details of the case, but a federal affidavit said the child died a day after police investigated the boy’s injuries at a local hospital.

The child’s mother was shown Pardo’s arrest photo this past weekend and confirmed his identity, according to court documents.

The U.S. Marshals Service filed a criminal complaint Wednesday against Pardo, also charging him with willfully fleeing to avoid prosecution. Konig did not know the name of the mother or the child.

Pardo is a native of Haiti who became a U.S. citizen in 1989. Konig said he is now awaiting extradition in a Haitian jail. He declined to say when Pardo would return, citing the sensitivity of the move.

Source: http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/3140646/