Tad Cummins, the Tennessee teacher accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old student and disappearing with her for five weeks, is due in court Monday.
Cummins will be shackled and transported from the jail to an airport where he'll board a U.S. Marshal-owned air plane, said Daniel T. Shelton, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service. Prosecutors say he planned to get a small boat and conducted a test run to cross into Mexico across the water from San Diego.
According to federal prosecutors, he also admitted plans to cross the border of the United States into Mexico.
Tennessee authorities declined to comment on his statement. They ultimately located and captured Cummins, thanks to a vital tip from a citizen. The federal charge, he said, carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years.
Cummins was taken into custody Thursday and the teen was placed in protective federal care.
Elizabeth's father, Anthony, spoke with ABC News where discussed the ups and downs his daughter was experiencing.
Authorities credit the caretaker of a remote northern California property for helping police find her and arrest her alleged abductor, fired teacher Tad Cummins.
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On Monday, Cummins' public defender, Benjamin Galloway, issued a statement defending his client, claiming he has "no history of violence and no criminal history whatsoever", and that he didn't coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth, Cummins' former student at the Culleoka Unit School in Maury County, Tennessee.
Tad Cummins is seen in this booking photo after his arrest by the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department on April 20. They did not have any apparatus for cooking or preparing food.
Bozeman says the family has a hard time hearing the details of where Elizabeth and Cummins stayed over the time and what evidence has been recovered. The couple has reportedly been separated since November 2015. The document alleges Cummins "made a number of damaging admissions to law enforcement that provide alarming insight inside his mentality". According to the complaint, "Cummins rambled on and on" to the student "about his how much he loved his wife, but indicated that VICTIM sometimes went to church with him and his wife and that VICTIM had a troubled past". Cummins told authorities he used back roads to avoid detection.
Kat Bozeman told WJBF's sister station, News 2, that her 15-year-old sister still isn't quite home.
"And the answer he gave me was that [Elizabeth] wanted to run away and she wanted to leave, and he didn't want her to go alone, so he went with her so that he could know that she was safe", Quinn said.
"I'm not allowed to ask her about things that happened along the way right now", he said.
This article was originally published at 9:35 a.m.
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