The U.S. Marshals Service arrested a former Maui corrections officer Saturday who spent two years evading law enforcement officials after being charged with sexual assault against a female inmate, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Sunday.

James Siugpiyemal, 43, was arrested and extradited from Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia over the weekend. Siugpiyemal was wanted by the Maui Police Department and the Maui County prosecutor’s office for five counts of sexual assault against an inmate at the Maui Community Correctional Center in Wailuku, where Siugpiyemal had worked as a guard. He has been turned over to Maui police for processing and prosecution.

From about July 31 to Aug. 11, 2014, Siugpiyemal allegedly forced Christina Riley of Kihei to engage in sexual intercourse with him while she was on work furlough and incarcerated at MCCC. (It is The Maui News’ policy to not identify victims in sex assault cases, but Riley has given permission to use her name.)

Siugpiyemal was working at the jail gatehouse, where cellphone numbers of work furlough inmates were kept, Riley said in a November 2014 Maui News story. She said that Siugpiyemal would start conversations with her and told her he could get her in trouble if she didn’t perform the sexual acts. Using a small video camera in her car, Riley recorded the alleged July 2014 sexual assault. The day after she told Siugpiyemal that she was going to report what happened, her work furlough was revoked, Riley said.

On Oct. 24, 2014, a Maui County grand jury indicted Siugpiyemal, who was living in Kahului at the time, on three counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of third-degree sexual assault. A warrant was issued for his arrest.

However, Siugpiyemal had already fled Hawaii by the time the warrant was issued, according to the Department of Justice. The U.S. Marshals Service and Maui Police Department launched a joint investigation and found Siugpiyemal had departed Maui for Guam on Oct. 9, 2014. He traveled to Yap on Oct. 11, 2014, and went into hiding.

Although Siugpiyemal had lived and worked on Maui for several years, he is a Micronesian citizen.

For two years, county and federal authorities worked with the Micronesian government to have Siugpiyemal arrested and extradited to the U.S. On Sept. 20, Yap authorities detained Siugpiyemal and brought him before a Yap court to face extradition hearings. He voluntarily waived his right to contest extradition and was held until U.S. Marshals could travel to Yap and secure his return to Maui.

Riley remains in the custody of the state Department of Public Safety and is being held at Oahu Community Correctional Center. Her attorney, Myles Breiner, could not be reached for comment Sunday.