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First Posted: 4/1/2014 DUNMORE &#8212; A Monroe County man wanted on charges he shot a woman in 2006 was returned to Lackawanna County from South America last week, state police at Dunmore announced Tuesday.
John Stivens Mesa-Caro, 28, also known as &#8220;Blaze,&#8221; was captured in Medellin, Columbia, on April 8, 2013, on an arrest warrant charging him with criminal attempt to commit homicide, aggravated assault, firearms not to be carried without a license and three counts of reckless endangerment. The arrest warrant was issued on Jan. 3, 2007.
State police charged Mesa-Caro with a shooting along Interstate 81 on Dec. 31, 2006. Mesa-Caro allegedly was involved in a dispute with a woman at Planet Pocono Gentlemen&#8217;s Club in White Haven. Mesa-Caro followed the woman as she was driving, pulled up beside her on the interstate and fired a round into her vehicle, state police said.
The woman was struck in the face and neck. She survived her injuries.
Mesa-Caro was placed on the statewide Ten Most Wanted List and was featured on the TV show &#8220;America&#8217;s Most Wanted,&#8221; in February 2012.
Authorities learned Mesa-Caro had fled to Columbia after the shooting.
Martin Pane, U.S. marshal for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, reported on April 11, 2013, that Mesa-Caro was captured in the South American country and awaited extradition to the United States.
Mesa-Caro was returned to Lackawanna County on March 27 and arraigned by District Judge Paul Walker. He was jailed at the Lackawanna County Prison for lack of $1 million bail.

Fugitive returned from South America