SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man was arrested in Tennessee Thursday in connection with a capital sexual battery case that occurred in Sarasota back in 2006.

According to the Sarasota Police Department, Eleazar Briones-Vega, 50, was wanted on charges of capital sexual battery after a victim, who was 10 years old at the time, reported that he had inappropriately touched her for three years before she left the state of Florida.

The Sarasota Police Department, working with the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marshal Service Florida-Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force, and the Eastern Tennessee Smoky Mountains Task Force, arrested Briones-Vega without incident in White Pines.

The police department reported that Briones-Vega is being held at the Jefferson County Detention Center in

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