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DA: Westbury fatal hit-run driver caught after 11 years

A man featured on the television show America's

Photo credit: Handout | A man featured on the television show America's Most Wanted was arraigned in Mineola -- about 11 years after prosecutors say he ran over and killed an 80-year-old retired school teacher in Westbury. (Nov. 13, 2012)

Sebastian Barba was married with three children, running a construction company in Ecuador when a murder he committed more than a decade ago finally caught up with him, prosecutors said.

Barba, now 34, was returning to Ecuador from a business trip to the Dominican Republic earlier this month when authorities in Panama got a "Red Notice" from Interpol that he was a fugitive and pulled him...

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