Madison fugitive Emily Atwater, who fled to Mexico with her non-custodial four-year-old son in July, was returned to the United States (Houston) this evening by the FBI and will be brought to Nashville to face a felony charge of custodial interference.
The child, Ollie Atwater, was reunited with his father when the plane landed in Houston.
Emily Atwater, 33, was allowed visitation with her son, Ollie, during the month of July. She picked him up from her ex-husband’s New York home on July 1 and was to have transferred custody back to him at the Nashville airport on July 31. When the ex-husband, Dustin Atwater, arrived in Nashville, he found that Emily, Ollie, and Emily’s Mexican boyfriend had fled their Madison apartment. Metro Police Youth Services detectives obtained a warrant charging Emily Atwater with custodial interference and subsequently determined that she, Ollie and the boyfriend were believed to be in Degollado Jalisco, Mexico. The FBI entered the case and obtained a federal warrant charging Emily Atwater with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
The FBI’s Legal Attaché Office in Mexico alerted Mexican authorities to the existence of the warrant. Emily Atwater was arrested in Mexico Wednesday night for an immigration violation. She and Ollie were placed on a commercial airliner with FBI agents in Mexico this afternoon and returned to the U.S.
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