(CBS 42) NEW YORK CITY Officials with the U.S. Marshals Service say they have arrested Fatemeh Angela Harkness after she got off a plane from the United Arab Emirates in New York City on Sunday.
Harkness is a Round Rock native who was the subject of an international manhunt by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force.
Marshals say Harkness fled just prior to an April 2004 sentencing in which she reportedly plead guilty to involvement in bank fraud totaling $1.3 million.
Harkness made a name for herself by owning a NASCAR team with her co-defendant in the case, Gary Jones.
Jones is currently incarcerated.
Police say Harkness, a former stripper, conspired with Jones, a Wells Fargo vice president to embezzle money that helped fund their NASCAR adventures.
The business was run from Harkness' Round Rock home.
Harkness was arrested by authorities with the United Arab Emirates in May 2005 -- but due to the fact that the country and the U.S. have no extradition treaty, she had not been accessible to U.S. Marshalls until landing at JFK International Airport on Sunday.
