Michael Wayde Mohon

A federal magistrate Thursday ordered the extradition of Michael Wayde Mohon to California to face charges of attempted murder in an attack on a reserve police officer from Fountain Valley. U.S. Magistrate Bert W. Milling ordered Mohon, 43, held in federal custody until he is returned to California. No bail was set. Mohon, who waived a hearing on his transfer to California, was arrested in Eight Mile, Ala., on Wednesday by FBI agents on information provided by a woman who viewed a segment of the NBC television program titled "Unsolved Mysteries."

Once portrayed on national television as one of the country's most dangerous fugitives, Michael Wayde Mohon won a major court victory this week when prosecutors dropped charges that he tried to kill a Fountain Valley police officer in late 1983. Mohon, now 45, whose dramatic exploits were featured on "America's Most Wanted" and "Unsolved Mysteries," fled from Sheriff's Department custody in 1985, while awaiting trial on charges of burglary and attacking Kevin Arnold, a young reserve officer.

A man who escaped from the Orange County Jail in 1985 while awaiting trial on charges of attempting to murder a Fountain Valley police officer was arrested by FBI agents Wednesday in a small town near Mobile, Ala. Michael Wayde Mohon, 42, and his wife, Sharon Rose Mohon, 34, were arrested outside an auto-parts store in Eight Mile, Ala., after agents received an anonymous telephone call from a woman who saw the escapee's picture on an April 12...

After an extensive national manhunt, a fugitive who slipped from the grasp of a sheriff's deputy four years ago was returned to Orange County on Friday to face charges of attempted murder in a 1983 attack on a reserve police officer. Michael Mohon, described by Sheriff's Lt. Richard J. Olson as "an escape artist," was arrested April 19 in Eight Mile, Ala., after FBI agents were contacted by a woman who recognized his picture while watching the NBC television program "Unsolved Mysteries."

Once portrayed on national television as one of the country's most dangerous fugitives, Michael Wayde Mohon won a major court victory this week when prosecutors dropped charges that he tried to kill a Fountain Valley police officer in late 1983. Mohon, now 45, whose dramatic exploits were featured on "America's Most Wanted" and "Unsolved Mysteries," fled from Sheriff's Department custody in 1985, while awaiting trial on charges of burglary and attacking Kevin Arnold, a young reserve officer.

After an extensive national manhunt, a fugitive who slipped from the grasp of a sheriff's deputy four years ago was returned to Orange County on Friday to face charges of attempted murder in a 1983 attack on a reserve police officer. Michael Mohon, described by Sheriff's Lt. Richard J. Olson as "an escape artist," was arrested April 19 in Eight Mile, Ala., after FBI agents were contacted by a woman who recognized his picture while watching the NBC television program "Unsolved Mysteries."

A Los Angeles federal court jury decided that three law enforcement officers should pay $24,000 to a Cudahy woman and her daughter whose home was bombarded with tear gas in a futile attempt to find an escaped prisoner. The fugitive, Michael Wayde Mohon, then 38, was not found when heavily armed officers of the Bell-Cudahy Police Department and the Orange County and Los Angeles county sheriff's departments stormed the home early on Jan. 18, 1985.

Heavily armed officers early Friday stormed a Cudahy home where they believed an escaped Orange County Jail inmate was hiding and fired six canisters of tear gas into the house, but they did not find the convict, authorities said. Investigators from the Orange County Sheriff's Department scoured the home after the raid but found no evidence that fugitive Michael Wayde Mohon had been there. Lt.

The district attorney's office is investigating allegations that the president of the Fountain Valley Police Officers' Assn. who is a Medal of Valor recipient embezzled from the association. Officer Kevin D. Arnold, 33, of Mission Viejo, was placed on paid administrative leave July 20 and became the subject of a criminal probe this week, said his attorney, Diane Marchant. Because that investigation has "just begun," Deputy Dist. Atty. Guy Ormes said, nothing has yet been determined.

A former Fountain Valley police officer, who once won the Medal of Valor, pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling more than $36,000 from a local police group he headed, prosecutors announced. Under the plea arrangement, Kevin D. Arnold, 34, of Mission Viejo was given a six-month sentence and five years' probation by Municipal Judge Donna L. Crandall. He also must repay the Fountain Valley Police Officers Assn., said Deputy Dist. Atty. Matthew Anderson.

A federal magistrate Thursday ordered the extradition of Michael Wayde Mohon to California to face charges of attempted murder in an attack on a reserve police officer from Fountain Valley. U.S. Magistrate Bert W. Milling ordered Mohon, 43, held in federal custody until he is returned to California. No bail was set. Mohon, who waived a hearing on his transfer to California, was arrested in Eight Mile, Ala., on Wednesday by FBI agents on information provided by a woman who viewed a segment of the NBC television program titled "Unsolved Mysteries."

A man who escaped from the Orange County Jail in 1985 while awaiting trial on charges of attempting to murder a Fountain Valley police officer was arrested by FBI agents Wednesday in a small town near Mobile, Ala. Michael Wayde Mohon, 42, and his wife, Sharon Rose Mohon, 34, were arrested outside an auto-parts store in Eight Mile, Ala., after agents received an anonymous telephone call from a woman who saw the escapee's picture on an April 12...

An Orange County Jail inmate charged with attempting to murder a Fountain Valley police officer escaped Thursday afternoon from UCI Medical Center, where he had been brought for a regular physical therapy session, a sheriff's spokesman said. Authorities said they believe that Michael Wayde Mohon, 38, was aided by a woman and that both are armed. Sheriff's Lt. Dick Olson said preliminary information was that Mohon escaped from outside Building 47, the medical center's physical therapy building.

A former Fountain Valley police officer and Medal of Valor recipient was arrested Tuesday and charged with embezzling $36,000 from the Fountain Valley Police Officers Assn. * Kevin D. Arnold, 34, of Mission Viejo pleaded not guilty to a single count of felony grand theft in Municipal Court here. He was released on his own recognizance and ordered to return Nov. 23 for a pretrial hearing. Arnold's attorney, John D.