An Osceola County judge has denied bond for the accused child molester who was captured in the Bahamas April 14.
Our cameras were there as 70-year-old Loomes Wheeler Jr. was led into jail Thursday night, where he remains without bond.
"I'm not guilty,” Wheeler said.
“(Well why did you run if you're not guilty?) "I needed a vacation," he said."
(What did you do in the Bahamas?) "I went fishing," he answered.
Osceola County deputies had been looking for Wheeler since Sept. 2, when he cut off his GPS monitoring device.
Wheeler was arrested in April 2013 after a 9-year-old claimed he sexually battered her for years, starting when she was only 5 years old.
While out on bond awaiting trial, Wheeler fled the country.
Federal agents working a drug case in the Bahamas came across Wheeler by accident last week.
According to investigators, U.S. Marshals received a call from 44-year-old Patrice Smith Bullard on Sunday, indicating Wheeler had contacted her requesting assistance. She provided Wheeler with a few names and phone numbers of people she knew in the Bahamas, including her ex-husband, whom Wheeler was with when he was arrested.
Wheeler told drug enforcement agents that Bullard helped him leave Osceola by driving him to Miami and providing him with a hotel room until an unidentified male took him by boat to the Bahamas.
Bullard was questioned Tuesday and provided inconsistent statements, deputies said.
She was arrested Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, where deputies said she was attempting to catch a flight to the Bahamas.
Bullard, who lives in Windermere, has been charged with accessory after the fact and was also booked into the Osceola County Jail.
Deputies said Wheeler had more connections and used them to get out of the country.
Those people are also facing charges.