Credit: Middletown police
A local man who was captured by federal authorities after fleeing his trial is on the lam again.
Albert Dunkowski, 54, of Middletown Township, was arrested late last Thursday morning by the U.S. Marshal Service at a bus stop in the 200 block of Belle Hill Road in Elkton, Maryland.
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Dunkowski and his 47-year-old wife Christine, who was arrested prior to last week in Wilmington, Delaware, were wanted after being convicted of three counts each of endangering the welfare of a child in absentia earlier this month in Bucks County. Bail was revoked for the two, but they had already skipped town.
Christine Dunkoski is awaiting extradition back to Bucks County.
Albert Dunkowski was being held in the Cecil County (Maryland) Detention Center after his arrest by deputy marshals.
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Law enforcement sources told LevittownNow.com Albert Dunkowski was released from custody earlier this week, and he is being sought by authorities.
It was not entirely clear how Albert Dunkowski got out of the custody of authorities in Maryland.
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The Cecil County Sheriff’s Office, which runs the Maryland jail that sits about an hour and a half from Levittown, did not return a request for comment Friday.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office confirmed they were informed Albert Dunkowski was released and is wanted.
The Dunkowskis will be sentenced once they are back in the custody of local authorities, Bucks County President Judge Wallace Bateman said in court earlier this month.
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The couple were first arrested after officers found them and four kids – ages 5, 6, 9, and 13 – sleeping in a vehicle at the Woodbourne Train Station in 2019. The family was living in the vehicle and the nearby woods, authorities said.
Credit: U.S. Marshal Service
At the trial, Deputy District Attorney Matt Lannetti said the conditions in the vehicle were so bad that bugs were crawling around, there was trash piled so high the view of one child was obstructed, and there was a strong odor of urine and feces.
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An evaluation by a doctor found the kids were malnourished and had urine-soaked pants. The two youngest were in diapers that had not been changed and a girl with cerebral palsy had bed sores all over her body, police said.
Police learned the couple had more kids who weren’t with them in the vehicle at the train station.
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One girl was found at a family friend’s home with serious neglect-caused dental problems. She couldn’t chew on one side of her mouth, authorities said.
Another child was located in Falls Township and was malnourished and 30 pounds underweight, authorities said.
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Albert Dunkowski told police the family ended up living in the vehicle and in a wooded encampment near the train station after they lost their home following a fight with a family member.
During the trial, prosecutors told the court none of the kids went to school and the family never had contact with social services agencies.
The children are recovering from the neglect after being taken away from their parents.
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