EVERETT — Everett bond enforcement agents caught up this weekend with a Snohomish County fugitive who skipped town while awaiting trial for allegedly making secret recordings of his sexual encounters with women.
Robert Allen Anderson has been wanted on a $500,000 arrest warrant since mid-Mar
ch after he allegedly cut off his home- monitoring bracelet and failed to show up for jail in Issaquah for an unrelated case.
Enforcement agents secretly followed Anderson’s girlfriend to a hotel in Albany, Ore. They cornered Anderson on Saturday when he left the hotel, said Mike Rocha with All City Bail Bonds in Everett. The agents persuaded Anderson to return with them to Snohomish County instead of being arrested by U.S. Marshals and facing extradition from Oregon.
“We had a great interest in bringing him back,” Rocha said.
His company had fronted Anderson’s $80,000 bail. Anderson’s parents had put up their family farm as collateral.
Anderson was booked Saturday into the Snohomish County Jail. He is facing three counts of voyeurism, illegal gun possession, animal cruelty and possessing child pornography.
Prosecutors allege that Anderson made secret sex tapes involving more than 10 women over the years. He also is accused of encouraging his girlfriend to have sexual contact with a dog and videotaping the incident.
His girlfriend pleaded guilty in March to attempted animal cruelty and was sentenced to 10 days in jail.
Anderson, 48, was initially released pending trial but later was placed on electronic home monitoring and ordered to post $80,000 bail. A judge at the time found that Anderson violated the terms of his release because he drank alcohol, went to a casino and met with his girlfriend. She is a witness in the case and Anderson is banned from having contact with her pending the trial.
Anderson also was on probation for a drunken driving case out of Issaquah. His probation on that matter was revoked in part because of the drinking allegations in Snohomish County. A six-month sentence was imposed.
Anderson was given until 4:30 p.m. that day to report to jail in Issaquah. That’s when he cut off his home-monitoring bracelet and disappeared, officials said. He’d been wanted by authorities and bail bonds agents ever since. Rocha said before Saturday’s apprehension he and his colleagues had put in hundreds of hours trying to locate Anderson.
Anderson made a brief appearance Monday in Superior Court. The hearing was rescheduled for Tuesday to allow for his attorney Jim Johanson to be in court.
Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives began investigating Anderson in October after his girlfriend found some of his tapes, court papers said. She turned some of the tapes over to Anderson’s ex-girlfriend. That woman told police she had dated Anderson off and on from 2006 until September, court papers said. She told investigators she had no idea Anderson recorded their sexual encounters.
Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463; hefley@heraldnet.com.
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