by: Dave Huddleston Updated: Apr 14, 2017 - 12:07 AM 
 
 ATLANTA - Local federal agents arrested a man who is accused of abusing a child, and made the arrest just before he tried to get out of the country. 
 
 Sergio Morales Soto, 19, was on board a flight heading to Guatemala on April 5, but his flight was delayed because of severe weather. 
 
 The storm gave agents enough time to arrest him. 
 
 "We were able to locate which aircraft he was on, actually to the point of which seat he was on. Then we went on board the aircraft and apprehended him," Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Gregory Wiest, of Homeland Security Atlanta said. 
 
 Channel 2 Action News was there when local agents handed Soto over to Caroline County Sheriff's Office agents and he boarded another plane -- this one headed back to Maryland, where Soto will face six felony sex assault charges. 
 
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 "We are quickly able to identify where these people may be within Hartsfield, not even at Hartsfield yet, but booked on a flight. We have people who know the front of the airport to the back of the terminal. They do it every day," Wiest said. 
 
 Port Director Carey Davis, with U.S .Customs Border Protection, said they arrest more than 20 suspects a day across the country. 
 
 He said bad guys think that if they make it to the airport, or even get on a plane they are scot-free. 
 
 “But they're wrong. They're wrong. This is the place we are going to get you," Davis said. 
 
 © 2017 Cox Media Group. ||||| Atlanta (CNN) Federal marshals have arrested Scott Kelley, a fugitive accused of kidnapping who was featured on CNN's "The Hunt." 
 
 Kelley, 50, was taken into custody at the Atlanta airport Wednesday after arriving on a flight from Costa Rica, Deputy U.S. Marshal Jamie Berry said. 
 
 "It was time to come home," Kelley told People magazine about his decision to return to the United States. 
 
 The couple is accused of leaving New Hampshire, kidnapping Genevieve Kelley's daughter, Mary Nunes, and beginning a life on the lam when she was 8 years old. At the time, the child's father, Mark Nunes, had full custody rights. 
 
 The search for the three spanned the United States, Canada and Central and South America. 
 
 It ended on Monday, when Scott Kelley and Mary Nunes entered the U.S. Consulate in Costa Rica and requested passports so they could return to the United States. 
 
 The consulate notified U.S. Marshals, Berry said, and when Kelley and Nunes flew to Atlanta on Wednesday investigators were waiting for them. 
 
 Mary Nunes, now 19, was interviewed by investigators at the Atlanta airport to ensure her health and safety and then allowed to continue to her final destination, Berry said. Previously, authorities had said her whereabouts were unknown 
 
 In a statement released through a private investigator he's hired in the case, her father said that he was thrilled to learn Mary is safe. 
 
 Mary Nunes was 8 years old when a court gave her father full custody 
 
 "We love Mary and are overjoyed that she is alive and back in the US. Our hearts and home are open to her, and we will do everything we can to insure she remains safe and healthy," Mark Nunes said in a statement. "We remain concerned about her emotional and physical well-being. We look forward to the day our family is finally reunited." 
 
 Kelley's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
 
 Allegations of abuse 
 
 Before allegedly fleeing the country, Genevieve Kelley had accused her ex-husband of abusing their child. Investigators found no basis for the accusations and no charges were filed. 
 
 On a Facebook page defending her , supporters of the mother say she did what any parent would do under the same circumstances. Photos on the page show her standing with friends holding signs that say, "Justice for Gen! Children need protection." 
 
 Wayne Rioux, who was then the police chief of Whitefield, New Hampshire, told "The Hunt" that a video Genevieve and Scott Kelley made, intended to prove their abuse allegations, aroused his suspicions. 
 
 Rioux watched the tape for "any evidence of wrongdoing by Mark Nunes." 
 
 "But throughout the tape all I saw was this bizarre, strange conduct by the mother," Rioux said, "who was absolutely brainwashing the daughter and trying to get the daughter to say things against her daddy." 
 
 Attorney Alan Rosenfeld has argued that Genevieve Kelley had no other option than running away with her daughter, after a court-appointed guardian and social service agencies had said they didn't believe the abuse allegations. 
 
 "Simply put, there was no lawful alternative to provide safety for this child," he said earlier this year, according to WMUR. 
 
 Breaks in other 'Hunt' cases 
 
 The 53-year-old American pastor is accused of dozens of sexual assaults in Minnesota. 
 
 Last year, the same day Genevieve Kelley was arrested, authorities in Texas announced that in an unrelated case, remains found were confirmed to be those of another fugitive featured on the program, Kevin Patrick Stoeser. 
 
 Stoeser, a U.S. soldier who was dishonorably discharged, pleaded guilty in 2003 to child sexual assault and child pornography charges and was sentenced to 13 years behind bars.
– An accused child rapist who tried to flee from Maryland to Guatemala was thwarted by bad weather, authorities say. Sergio Morales Soto, 19, was arrested on board a flight at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport the day after the alleged April 4 rape, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. After he was identified as a suspect, police discovered that Soto had boarded an early morning flight in Baltimore, with a connection in Atlanta. Homeland Security officials say flight delays caused by severe weather in the Southeast gave them enough time to catch up with him. Soto was detained in Georgia and put on a plane back to Maryland this week to face six felony assault charges, WSB-TV reports.