Jeffrey Epstein was most recently “caught” and taken into federal custody on July 6, 2019, when he was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after arriving on a private flight from Paris on sex-trafficking charges involving minors in New York and Florida.

Quick timeline

  • Epstein was first arrested in Florida on state charges on July 27, 2006, in a case involving sexual offenses against a minor in Palm Beach.
  • He later pleaded guilty in 2008 to lesser state charges, served about 13 months in a work-release arrangement, and registered as a sex offender.
  • After renewed scrutiny of his past plea deal and new evidence, federal prosecutors opened a new case and he was arrested again on July 6, 2019, at Teterboro Airport on federal sex-trafficking charges covering conduct from 2002–2005.
  • He was held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City until his death on August 10, 2019.

TL;DR: If someone asks “when was Epstein caught,” most news and court records point to July 6, 2019, as the key arrest date on federal sex- trafficking charges, although he had an earlier arrest on related state charges back in 2006.

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