Under a plea agreement, Michael Lee Moore, 58, pleaded guilty to child custodial interference, a felony, for taking his 5-year-old son out of Alaska last summer in violation of a custodial agreement with the boy’s mother.
When Moore left the state on a plane to Texas this summer, a warrant was issued for his arrest. His son’s picture was put in a national abducted children database. Moore eventually was arrested in California and his son was returned to Moore’s wife.
Moore was sentenced to three years of probation. His attorney said Moore plans to move to Oregon, where he will be required to be in telephone contact with his probation officer and notify the court if he moves within 60 miles of Fairbanks, according to court log notes. If he violates probation, he faces as much as a year and a half in prison.
His wife attended the Feb. 8 change of plea hearing where she expressed concern about Moore returning to Two Rivers, according to court log notes.
Contact staff writer Sam Friedman at 459-7545.
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