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Show Page A5 lEhe 51tmrs-3tijbrprnlhi'- Thursday, March 15, 2001 nt Moab car salesman charged with sex offense may have fled country with $22,000 by Franklin Seal staff writer A Moab used car sales- man was charged two weeks ago with forcible sexual abuse, a -degree ftlony. Now it aphe may have skipped town pears before a summons could be served and has allegedly made off with $22000 from the car lot where he worked. second- On Friday, Mar. 9 a war- rant for the arrest of Timothy P. Arcans was issued regarding the sex abuse charge and a related charge of unlawful sale of alcohol to a minor, a class A misdemeanor. Those charges were originally filed Feb. 26, but when Grand County Sheriff 's deputies attempted to serve the summons, Arcaris was apparently out of town. Also on Friday, John K of Moab Auto Black, Sales, filed a complaint with the Moab Police Department accusing Arcaris of cashing three separate checks totaling $22,000 from the company account without his permission. Black said he has reason er J i:sivV Outiiiiiiiimiis hope he s aught, she said to suspect Arcaris has left the country. Arcaris, 51, is listed on the Utah Department of Corrections Sex Offender website for a 1989 felony child sex abuse conviction. The site also lists four cashed at banks in St. aliases for the man: Jack J. cashed in St Charges regarding the Arcaris, Timothy Paul Arcaris, George. Hacket Trent. brought the alleged mi sMr. g funds had not vet lieen flint as of Monday morning "Tlu ia.--e will he forwarded to the County Attorneys Otfict for rev lew anti i barges will lie fili-sometime the end o next Moab Police Lieutensaid week, ant Siott Mallon The 1H97 Mont icelivi case involved a rape charge that was dismissed m District Court, then a ptealed to the Utah Supreme Court L.i't month the Supreme Court lemanded the ca.se back to District Court for a new trial (lending the filing of new charges by the San Juan County attorney As of Monday morning, the San Juan County Attorney was still in the proct ss of re filing those charges George, Fiack said A third check for $6,000. also was That Jack J. Trent, and Jacquie The car lot owner says he has known Arcaris for years. He knew about his prior troubles with the law when he hired him in August last year to sell cars at his new lot at the corner of 300 South and Main Street in Moab. As Black tells it, Arcaris served about seven years in an Ariz.ona penitentiary on the 1989 sex abuse conviction. In 1997, when Arcaris was a partner in a Monticello car lot, he got into further trouble with the law. He was arrested for a parole violation regarding another alleged sex offense in Monticello; that case is still in the court system. After serving time in the Utah penal system, Arcaris was relea ed in total Black FEEL BETTER with ROLFING Reduce Aches, Pains A Stress Increase Flexibility & Improve Posture Increase Emotional Health, Fnhance Performance 'ibiiio.ur fTRUCWRAi INTECRATION Hydroseeding Rototilling Brush Mowing Post Holes Landscape Rake Small Backhoe Small Front-end since called his Loader ggg ife. ex-- 1 personally think he's out of the United States, Black said. He remembers one time when Arcaris told his attorney that Timothy P. the fall of 1999 and went to work in St. George, according to Black. The following summer he moved to Moab and Black hired him. 1982. I talked to all his former employers and hes goi the most talent of anyone for selling cars," Black said. As an employee, Arcaris was working out great, Black added, until Monday, Feb. 26, when Arcaris said he was leaving to attend Salt Lake City car auctions to buy cars for the lot. Black said the two men talked by phone the next day. Arcaris told Black he was in Salt he would not go back to jail. His attorney Arcaris Ive known him since ROLFINC miss- ing funds to $22,000. He ha., 1 c Regarding the Grand AlanUiwn. IIM. Ml County sex offense. 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