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Read about man captured for 2004 Centralia beer bottle attack found new life in Mabton …

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

The Yakima Herald-Republic writes about what 38-year-old Refugio Jose Vazquez-Tellez has been doing the past eight years since he went on the lam after allegedly fleeing a Centralia apartment where he broke a beer bottle [1] over  man’s head and slashed and stabbed him with it.

Vazquez-Tellez was captured in Mabton where he had been living under the alias Manuel Vasquez-Escalante  since 2004 and established a new life, job and family, according to the Centralia Police Department.

He was featured on America’s Most Wanted in 2009 and earlier this month Mabton police followed up on a tip that led to his arrest, according to Centralia police.

He was brought before a judge in Lewis County Superior Court last Monday where bail was set at $75,000 for the first-degree assault charge.

Authorities believe the fight at a South Pearl Street apartment on June 26, 2004 was related to Vazquez-Tellez and another man getting “ratted out” over a stolen bicycle.

Vazquez-Tellez pleaded not guilty on Thursday and a trial date was set for the week of Oct. 29, according to news reporter Ross Courtney.

Read more here. [1]