FIRST ON FOX – The sole “person of interest” in a two-year-old missing person case was arrested in Georgia weeks after he failed to show up to court in Indiana, Georgia State Police confirmed.
Xavier Breland skipped town before his end-of-December court appearance in Hamilton County, Indiana, on a gun charge unrelated to his estranged wife’s disappearance in February 2022.
The fugitive was caught by Georgia State Police on Monday after a weekslong manhunt and taken into custody on a re-arrest warrant. Law enforcement is preparing extradition back to Indiana.
Breland’s lawyer did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Breland’s estranged wife, Ciera Breland, was last seen at 7:17 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2022, when a surveillance camera recorded her outside her mother-in-law’s home in Johns Creek, Georgia, for a delivery.
The Indiana gun charge and arrest in Georgia are unrelated to Ciera’s disappearance. He was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon stemming from an incident on Feb. 28, 2022.
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That was two days after he reported his wife missing from their Carmel, Indiana, home.
At that point, Ciera, Xavier, their 5-month-old son and her dog had been in Georgia for more than a week after their mid-February 2022 trip to Ciera’s parents’ home.
Xavier returned to Indiana, but there is no evidence Ciera ever came back with him, the FBI said, and he has not…
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