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On June 25, 2025, the Tucson Police Department was notified that a fugitive wanted in connection with multiple child molestation cases dating back to the 1980s had been taken into custody after more than three decades on the run.
In December 1991, Tucson Police detectives began investigating reports of sexual abuse at a childcare center on East Prince Road. At the time, detectives identified the suspect as 33-year-old Daniel George Brewster, an employee at the daycare. The incidents occurred between 1984 and 1991, while the victims, four children between the ages of 4 and 9, were under Brewster’s care. As a result of the investigation, Daniel Brewster was arrested on January 1, 1992, and booked into the Pima County Jail. After posting bail, he failed to appear for trial. Legal proceedings continued in his absence, and in November 1992, a jury found him guilty in absentia of 15 counts of Child Molestation. A warrant was then issued for his arrest.
On June 25, 2025, Brewster, now 66, was arrested in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, by Ukrainian National Police (NPU). The arrest was the result of a coordinated international effort involving Ukrainian prosecutors, Ukraine’s Cyber Police Department, the FBI, and Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice. Authorities discovered Brewster had been living in Ukraine, under a false identity, using forged documents. The Tucson Police Department is sincerely grateful for the dedicated efforts of our federal and international partners in locating and apprehending this fugitive. We hope this arrest brings a measure of closure and justice to the survivors of these horrific crimes.
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