Fugitive caught in Bigfork

The Daily Inter Lake

A fugitive wanted by authorities for kidnapping her 13-year-old son in Georgia was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Bigfork.

Sarah Elizabeth Heath, 36, will be returned to Sandy Springs, Ga., where she allegedly kidnapped her son, Erick Sutton, in September 2008.

Heath had lost custody of her son to his grandparents, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

Heath, who is also known as Sarah Sutton or Sarah Rodriguez, had been in Montana since January.

She worked tending bar at a Bigfork bowling alley and a Mexican restaurant under the alias Madeline Coker.

The U.S. Marshals office in Georgia on Monday forwarded leads in the case, which had been featured on the Web sites of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Polly Klaas Foundation, to local authorities.

Officers with the U.S. Marshals' Violent Offender Task Force and Flathead County Sheriff's Office made the arrest about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.

Erick Sutton is fine and in the custody of child protective services, according to U.S. Marshal Rod Ostermiller.