Puerto Vallarta City, Mexico, 18 June 2003, 1. Wide shot of Puerto Vallarta beach 2.Various of police station 3. Mid shot bounty hunters in jail 4. Various of Andrew Luster, coming out of police station and being put inside a police van 5. Police van leaving 6. Various of bounty hunters in jail 7. Wide shot of Puerto Vallarta city airport Ventura, California, 18 June 2003 8. Wide shot of news conference by Federal Bureau of Investigation and Ventura County officials 9. Close shot of photographer 10. Still photo of Andrew Luster after arrest in Mexico 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ralph Boelter, special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation "Earlier this morning, rather, the FBI learned that the bounty hunter and his associates had located (Andrew) Luster and detained him. Afterwards, Luster, the bounty hunter and the bounty hunter's associates were taken into custody by Mexican authorities in Puerto Vallarta." 12. Mid shot of reporters. 13. Wide shot of news conference. 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Mack, Federal Bureau of Investigation: "The I-D was pretty easy. I believe our legal attache went in and confronted....the individual who he thought to be Mr. Luster and asked him his name and I think he said 'I'm Andrew Luster.' So that's pretty easy." 15. Still photo shot of Andrew Luster 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Mack, Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Embarrassing? No. I mean we were on the trail and I think it would have been inevitable that he would have been arrested. So....I think as special agent Bolter mentioned....that it was a little out of what we would recommend private citizens to do to go out and actually make the arrest. So we were surprised, not embarrassed. He's in custody and that's the bottom line. He's off the streets and coming back to the country, to this country to serve his time." 10. Mid shot of news conference. STORYLINE: After five months on the run, Max Factor cosmetics heir and convicted rapist Andrew Luster was caught on Wednesday in Mexico. Mexican police arrested him as he scuffled with bounty hunters who trailed him to the resort town, Puerta Vallarta. Earlier this year, a California court had convicted and sentenced Luster in absentia to 124 years in jail for multiple counts of rape, poisoning and drug possession. The 39-year-old great-grandson of makeup legend Max Factor disappeared in January during a recess in his trial. Mexican Police said Luster had been living in Puerto Vallarta about a month before bounty hunters tracked him down on Wednesday, seizing him in a noisy scuffle that prompted neighbours to call the police. The group then headed out of town in two cars, apparently on their way to the United States with Luster, but were stopped by police. A US couple who had met Luster in Puerto Vallarta tipped of the bounty hunters and the FBI after then returned to the USA. The three bounty hunters were detained on charges of being in Mexico illegally, police said. Luster was later transferred from Puerto Vallarta to Mexico City. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/759cc5dee4a55d99109a448aa3c766e1 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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